Walter Falcon, global authority on food security, has died
Raised on a farm in east Iowa and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, the Stanford economics professor was an internationally sought-after agricultural adviser.
Haiyan Lee, author of a new book that compares Chinese and American views of justice, on why spy thrillers are more popular in China than detective stories.
“It is customary to speak of someone having a gender identity, but most of us have many gender feels, which need not pattern together in any particular way,” Stanford philosopher R.A. Briggs writes in a new co-authored book.
New model helps fill gaps in African American ancestry
The authors of a study that introduces a new way of thinking about genealogy discuss interpreting ancestry fractions in relation to family trees and why they used former first lady Michelle Obama’s family as an example.
Both animal and plant stem cells rely on the cytoskeleton to divide properly, but in opposite ways. The findings could help researchers engineer more resilient plants.
