A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance.

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A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery—how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance. The researchers found that ...

Britain has a national debt problem. Britain’s mass affluent families have an inheritance tax problem. Sometimes when you have two problems, there’s one solution that’s staring you in the face. We ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Today, we’re looking at the consequences of taxing inherited wealth and how AI can advance the school-choice movement. Write to us at editors@city-journal.org with questions or comments. Fifty-one ...

Abstract: An increasing number of machine learning algorithms are being applied to multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), yielding promising results. However, many of these algorithms suffer ...

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