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• MR. ‘GREEN’ GENES

  This letter sure has dominant genes — a 1953 missive from the co-discoverer of DNA’s structure to his 12-year-old son explaining how “life comes from life’’ was auctioned for a record-setting $6 million yesterday. Francis Crick’s so-called “secret of lif...

• THE ROOTS OF NY’S ROT

  With a fresh new round of arrests of New York state politicos, you have to wonder: Is there something in the drinking water? There sure is — and politicians have put it there. A state senator led off in handcuffs makes for a good photo. But for the root ...

• FAULKNER TROVE

  An unpublished William Faulkner story is among a group of the author’s artifacts headed for auction on June 11 at Sotheby’s in New York. The items, including Faulkner’s postcards from Paris and an early draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, are exp...

• FAULKNER ARTIFACTS, INCLUDING UNPUBLISHED STORY, TO BE AUCTIONED OFF IN NYC

  A recently discovered unpublished short story by William Faulkner is among a group of his personal artifacts heading for a New York City auction. The untitled 12-page story was among a trove of literary papers found on his family's farm in Charlottesvill...

• DARK DELIGHTS IN CAMELOT

  Watching the magnetic Tina Benko chatter about style and death in “Jackie,” you’ve got to wonder: How the heck did she memorize that crazy script, which jumps about without an obvious chronological or emotional through-line? Unlike the 1997 Broadway extr...

World View

• Charles Wolf: Austerity and Stimulus---Two Misfires

  By Charles Wolf Jr. Why is it that in the United States the "stimulus" solution to the economy's ills has performed badly while in Europe the opposite approach, "austerity," has performed even worse?The answer is that austerity (defined as substantial re...

• Kevin Kimberlin: Gene Patents Drive Medical Innovation

  By Kevin Kimberlin The biotech industry began in 1978 when the University of California applied for a patent on the gene for the human growth hormone. Since that filing nearly 20% of the 20,000-plus genes in our DNA have been patented. The current Suprem...

• Oops! The 5 greatest scientific blunders

  Astrophysicist Mario Livio is the author of the new book "Brilliant Blunders" (May 2013, Simon & Schuster)Simon & Schuster/STScI Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate som...

• Antibiotics may end lower back pain curse

  HUNDREDS of thousands of people with chronic lower back pain could be cured by antibiotics, according to ground-breaking research that one expert said deserved a Nobel Prize. The discovery that infections cause up to 40 per cent of cases of lower back pa...

• Nobel Prize winner de Duve dies at 95

  A BELGIAN university says that biochemist Christian de Duve, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1974, has died in an act of euthanasia. He was 95. His university, UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve, confirmed it was a case of euthanasia but did no...

More Reports

• Queen Elizabeth takes the bus in Cambridge

  ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday (May 23) toured toured a world-leading research institute dubbed the "Nobel Prize factory" in Cambridge. Peering down a powerful microscope to look at minute mice eggs, the...

• A new life on the red planet

  A putative program to establish a human colony on Mars has met with a strong response from hopeful Chinese citizens, as Peng Yining reports in Beijing. Chinese people have explored most places on Earth, from the arctic icecaps to Amazonian rainforests an...

• Newly found Pearl S. Buck book is to be published

  A newly discovered novel by the late Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck is to be released this fall. New York-based Open Road Integrated Media says Buck wrote the novel, titled "The Eternal Wonder," shortly before she died in 1973. The publisher sa...

• Queen tours 'Nobel Prize factory'

  Peering down a powerful microscope to look at minute mice eggs, the Queen appeared fascinated as scientists explained their work trying to discover why some women trying to conceive produce abnormal eggs. About ten perfectly circular mice eggs had been r...

• Maku - Why Achebe Did Not Win Nobel Prize

  But for his preference for African motif in his books, especially the Igbo tradition, the late Prof. Chinua Achebe would have received the Nobel Prize like other international authors, Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said Sunday. The minister,...

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