A wave of strikes across the Middle East in recent days shows that Iran has not lost the capacity to retaliate. By Nicholas KulishHelene CooperIsabel Kershner and Erika Solomon The city wants to ...

In “Transcription,” Ben Lerner considers a famous father, a loyal protégé and a distant son, bound by devotion and separated by miscommunication. By Alexandra Jacobs “The Keeper,” the final book in ...

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How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast of ...