Conventional DNA is comprised of the familiar A, C, G, and T base pairs, but a newly created genetic system is packed with eight, thus doubling the number of letters normally found in self-replicating ...

In a jacket pocket over his heart, Samuel L. Jackson's Hateful Eight character Major Marquis Warren carries a letter he purports is from President Abraham Lincoln himself, one of the few surviving ...

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This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Adam Aaronson, of Deerfield, Ill. Think of a classic movie title in which the initials of all the words up to the last one, in order, ...