A Nature Genetics study challenges the long-held view that each generation starts with a biological clean slate, finding that epigenetic marks can be inherited.
A Nature Genetics study challenges the idea that every generation begins with a clean genetic slate.
Epigenetic modifications can survive the reset at conception and be passed to offspring.
The finding blurs the line between genetic inheritance and environmental influence.
Psychologist Melvin Lerner showed experimentally that people tend to blame victims of injustice rather than accept that the world can simply be unfair.
Lerner showed that powerless observers blame victims to preserve their own sense of control.
The mechanism, called the 'belief in a just world', is unconscious and nearly universal.
It drives stigma against the poor, the ill, and victims of violence.
GJ 887 d orbits a red dwarf star in the immediate neighbourhood of our Solar System, making it one of the most promising worlds ever found this close to Earth.
GJ 887 d is among the closest potentially habitable planets ever found, at 10.7 light-years.
Its orbit sits in the habitable zone of a red dwarf, where liquid water could exist.
Habitability remains a hypothesis — atmosphere and composition have not yet been measured directly.
On 29 June, the Romanian Academy's Great Hall hosts a commemorative session marking one hundred years since the birth of cell biologist Nicolae Simionescu.
On 29 June, the Romanian Academy holds a centenary commemoration for Nicolae Simionescu.
The session takes place in the Academy's Great Hall at 10:00, organised by the Section of Biological Sciences.
Simionescu is internationally recognised as a pioneer of cell biology.