Happiness on the horizon

Old age really is golden, says sociologist Yang Yang, who finds that for most Americans, the best days are yet to come.

Bohemian borders

Historian Tara Zahra writes that in early 20th-century Europe, nationalism meant fighting over children.

Eureka moment

A chemist and a biologist investigate the possibility that a well-known genetic molecule serves another, unknown function.

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