How the compulsion to explore is coded in the human genome.

A Major League umpire learns that his children share the same deadly genetic disease.

The 1920s experiment to reverse-engineer wild cows.

How information replicates, mutates, and evolves.

A DHL tycoon’s small plane disappeared near the Phillipines amidst rumors of children fathered with teenage Asian villagers. Every scrap of his DNA went missing, but that didn’t stop a forensic mathematician.

One of the founders of Google discovered that he carried a gene that meant a 50% chance of developing Parkinson’s. In response, he is working to change and expedite the way that Parkinson’s research is conducted.