Bead weaving is a meditative craft that demands patience, precision, and a whole lot of imagination. You get to string ...

While science and crafting may seem disparate, Lawther — the owner of String Bead, a beading and jewelry-making supply store in Chico — said there’s more commonality between the two than one ...

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Long, slender ...

B, D, F, M, N, Q, R at 34th St.-Herald Sq. This U.S. outpost of a small Tokyo-based chain feels a bit like a warehouse, selling affordable jewelry-making basics under its fluorescent lights. The ...

Under the microscope in its extended form, chromatin looks like beads on a string. The beads are called nucleosomes. Each nucleosome is made of DNA wrapped around eight histone proteins that ...