An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

Important regulations expire at the end of next year, thwarting tax planning and creating a monumental fiscal challenge for Congress. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...