The bacterial chromosome must be linearly compacted more than 1,000-fold to fit within the bacterial cell. The chromosome is compacted in an orderly and hierarchical fashion in lockstep with DNA ...

"I am separated from my good friend, Amra; we can only spend time together at weekends," 11-year-old Asja Besirevic complains. You would think her friend had moved to the other side of country. In ...

Is school segregation getting worse? Plenty of people say yes, including scholars, journalists, and civil-rights advocates. For the first time in years, there’s something approximating a consensus: ...

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On the east - and poorer side - of Troost Avenue in Kansas City, the city's racial dividing line Legal segregation in the US may have ended more than 50 years ago. But in many parts of the country, ...

More than 30 years on from the IRA’s ceasefire and more than 25 years after the Belfast Agreement was signed, the Catholic-Protestant divide in Northern Ireland still looms large. Teaching Catholic ...

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Tommy Robinson is being kept away from other prisoners over fears he will be killed by another inmate, a court has heard. The far-right political activist was jailed for 18 months last October after ...

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Matthew R. Meehan is a leading finance expert and CEO of Shield Advisory Group. He specializes in helping SMEs access credit and capital. Here's something I wish I had known about sooner, and I bet a ...