There are around 30 trillion cells in your body and about 1 per cent of them get replaced every day. But this process is far from perfect. The DNA in new cells contains many mistakes, or mutations: ...

If you’re an older saver coping with tax planning for a large, traditional IRA—or even a smaller one—you might have overlooked a useful tool. It’s called a disclaimer. In essence, it’s a strategic ...

Boomers are leaving behind decades of accumulated clutter for their heirs to manage Charlotte Lytton is a freelance journalist who has worked in newsrooms from London to New York. She began writing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Korea is weighing plans to base inheritance tax on book value instead of market value in order to curb ...

Forget the “California Dream” — for the next generation of Golden State residents, the new reality is more like a royal succession. New property data reveals a bombshell shift in California’s housing ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

Baby boomers and older Americans have spent decades amassing one of the largest concentrations of private wealth in history. Now, that wealth is starting to be passed down to the next generation—and ...