A newspaper obituary not long ago revealed that its subject was believed to have been both the son and grandson of the lecherous monarch, Edward VII. (Work it out for yourself.) But this is as nothing to the conundrums that Lee Silver sets out in his mesmerizing vision of our genetic future. Within weeks of the eruption of Dolly the sheep into the pages of Nature — and regardless of the doubts ...

F 2 -linear pseudorandom number generators are very popular due to their high speed, the ease with which a sizable state space can be created, and provable theoretical properties. However, they suffer from linear artifacts that show as failures in linearity-related statistical tests such binary-rank linear-complexity test. In this article, we give two new contributions. First, introduce transfo...