Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Chronogram's July 2026 Editor's Note shows how the magazine's connecting tissue this month is stories or preservation and tending to the fires of history for those who will come after us.

UnClaimedX’s Pass Down is a digital inheritance platform designed to help individuals securely organise financial assets and ...

In many fish species, water temperature determines the sex of the fry. This biological mechanism threatens to wipe out entire populations because of a shortage of females in the face of global warming ...

The day before my Kabbalah class, I found myself frustrated by my own name. Matthew Robin. It sounded so thoroughly American, ...

On July 3 and 4, Mars will meet with Uranus in Gemini, bringing together the planet of action, conflict and passion with the ...

Mercury retrograde strikes again! Each year, our cosmic messenger planet, Mercury, enters into a retrograde phase three to ...

A gene can vanish, and life can go on. That is one of the most striking lessons from a sweeping new analysis of 173,303 ...

Genetic factors primarily explain the link between parental and childhood BMI, with maternal obesity impacting birth weight ...

The “K” in Keramics points back to “kéramos,” the ancient Greek word for pottery. It is a simple typographic shift, yet it ...

A historic new study reveals how OpenAI’s o3 model helped Boston Children’s Hospital diagnose patients with rare genetic ...

Messages may carry more history than they seem to today. Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer, slowing communication around ...