In every dividing cell, a time comes when the two copies of the genome need to be separated. The aptly named enzyme separase springs into action and gets the job done. Unleashing separase at any other ...

Physicists construct theories to describe nature. Let us explain it through an analogy with something that we can do in our everyday life, like going on a hike in the mountains. To avoid getting lost, ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...