Share this on WhatsApp On Feb. 27, 2018, I got an email from the Heritage Foundation, alerting me to a news conference that afternoon held by Republican attorneys general of Texas and other states. It was referred to only as a “discussion about the Affordable Care Act lawsuit.” I sent the following note to my […]
Share this on WhatsApp A massive galaxy similar to our own Milky Way spotted shockingly early in the universe’s history is challenging astrophysicists’ understanding of galaxy formation. Witnessed just 1.5 billion years after the big bang, when the universe was some 10 percent of its current age, the spinning disk of gas and stars is […]
Share this on WhatsApp The risk factors for COVID-19 are many: old age, obesity, heart conditions. But early genetic studies have identified another trait that some people who develop severe COVID-19 seem to share: a cluster of genetic variations on their third chromosome. And that DNA sequence likely derives from Neandertals, says Hugo Zeberg of […]
