These groups’ dream has long been to establish federal autonomy, akin to that of their fellow Kurds in Iraq. With Iran’s leaders battered and degraded, they hope their moment has come. By Erika ...

“The Keeper,” the final book in her Cal Hooper trilogy, returns readers to an insular village in rural western Ireland. By Sarah Lyall If you’ve blazed through all of the beloved crime novelist’s ...

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How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast of ...