Recent efforts to address cybersecurity risks have focused on leveraging the immense technical capacity of the American intelligence community to protect the nation’s information technology infrastructure, and to project power in a new domain. This creates a potential conflict of interest: the joint duties of breaking into foreign systems while securing our own raises questions about competing ...

The present study examined whether parenting and child characteristics of 2- and 3 1/2-year-old children had common paths of influence on their 4 1/2-year independent cognitive and social functioning. Structural equation modeling was guided by hypotheses that assumed children's later independence is facilitated by specialized parental support in early social interactions. To address the importa...

The selfish DNA hypothesis imagines the genome as an ecological community, a collection of interacting DNA sequences with differing evolutionary origins and potentially different interests. We are now finding out more about the ways in which host sequences can enlist the help of formerly parasitic DNAs.