This kind of big data analysis of the 50,000 markers on the cow genome that are regularly examined within the industry makes the Holstein dairy cow something like the 21st-century equivalent of Gregor Mendel’s pea plants, Atlantic editor and writer Alexi

Also, genetic inheritance as studied by the monk Gregor Mendel is taught in high school/university. He did all kinds of experiments with peas and how they pass on genes. Monk scientists ftw. Yes! Not only did Marc’s post make me laugh out loud, but so di

Amy Murdoch-Davis is one of 14,000 people who have been studied since birth in and around Bristol, UK; her baby, Esmé, will soon join the study, too. ALSPAC (CHILDREN OF THE 90S) In a secure storage barn on the outskirts of Bristol, nearly 9,000 placenta

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. In 1714, the British government offered a prize for a method of determining longitude at sea, with an award of £2

Somebody uploaded a video on YouTube to send a message that scientists ought not believe in God. The speaker is Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. Some of the lecture was cut out, so I wil

Biologists from the University of Georgia have figured out the exact genetic mutation that was depicted in Vincent van Gogh’s iconic series of sunflower paintings. We normally think of sunflowers as having a large disc of tiny florets, surrounding by a b