Leftover toys from 1945

My toys

The year is 1945 (or so I guess). The war is in its final stages in Europe. Dad is at an airfield in Belgium keeping B-26s flying. He hasn’t seen me except for a couple of days right after I was born. Mom and I live with her parents—Grandma and Grandpa. All […]

Social Interactions Can Alter Gene Expression In Brain

If you think about your DNA and its link to your behavior, you might believe it’s hardwired—that is, our DNA determines who we are and how we behave with others. In a review paper in the November 2008 issue of Science, authors Robinson, Fernald, and Clayton show that social information alters gene expression in the […]

Visible image of extra-solar planets

For some time, astronomers have inferred from spectrographic data that there were objects (presumably planets) orbiting far away stars. Visually imaging an extra-solar planet has been impossible, until now.

Using the Keck and Gemini telescopes (located on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii), astronomers have imaged not one, but three planets in orbit around the star […]