Last week, Bertie attended two Diwali parties on the same evening. This must be a record for our reclusive friend, and he certainly had not planned for it to happen that way. Once his niece realised ...

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, an isotope of the chemical element technetium (Tc). Electron capture decay ...

South Africa defeated Pakistan by eight wickets in the second Test encounter in Rawalpindi to draw the two-match series 1-1 on Thursday. Simon Harmer finished with figures of 6-50 as the 36-year-old ...

When 85-year-old Italian nonna, Maria Cavallini, started filming herself rolling pasta “just to keep busy,” she didn’t expect to become the face of a global food empire. Yet, her wrinkled hands, ...

Promotion: American industrial design brand Studio Other has created a custom-engineered office table that can be used as a communal worktop or a duo of personal desks. Los Angeles-based Studio Other ...

DEAR ABBY: I’m 22, and my boyfriend is 21. We’ve been dating for a few months. At a recent family dinner, his maternal grandfather hit on me. I was helping to clear the dinner table and leaned across ...

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In many sexually dimorphic species, a mechanism is required to ensure equivalent levels of gene expression from the sex chromosomes. In mammals, such dosage compensation is achieved by X-chromosome ...