Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in ...

The Babbage Engine Exhibit opens May 10 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The central artifact of the exhibit, a faithful construction of Englishman Charles Babbage's Difference ...

A numerical table is a tool designed to save the time and labor of those engaged in computing work. The oldest tables which are preserved, were compiled in Babylon in the period 1800-1500 B.C. They ...

Tessa K.J. Haining ’23 lives in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. “I note the obvious differences / in the human family,” begins Maya Angelou in her poem, “Human Family.” “Some of ...

A genetic mystery in white sharks (formerly great white sharks) has stumped scientists for over 20 years. Between three major populations of the sharks, differences in mitochondrial DNA have raised ...