In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

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Polyploidization, the combination and duplication of genomes, is a major driver of plant evolution and diversification. Yet this process causes “genome shock,” leading to rapid activation of ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Hsieh, M.D., covers healthcare economics, innovation, and policy. A few years ago, I was half-asleep on a red-eye flight from ...

Overall, induction of polyploidy in hiPSC‐CMs via AURKB inhibition increased cell size, transcription, and translation rates and mitochondrial abundance, reduced baseline cycling and responsiveness to ...

Cancer cells respond to stress with greater diversity. Drugs that affect DNA replication, or radiation that causes direct DNA damage, lead to increasingly diverse offspring over multiple cell ...

Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations arise continuously during cell proliferation. While genetic mutations alter ...

When Carli Leon heard the news of a child who died in February during the current measles outbreak in West Texas—the first child to die of measles in the U.S. since 2003—her initial reaction was “That ...

An Australian couple began their romantic vacation to Venice seated next to a dead body for the final four hours of a 14-hour flight. A woman collapsed in the aisle next to their row on a Qatar ...