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Genetic tests allow doctors to diagnose disease, but the knowledge of what’s in your DNA doesn’t always help in the way one might hope. Reporter Ari Daniel Shapiro of our partner program NOVA has the story of one man and his unusual gene.

The movie Anonymous directed by Roland Emmerich opens this week. Except for the heavy use of computer-generated images, it’s nothing like his previous disasteramas – The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and 2012.

Come Christmas, few modes of transportation are as iconic as the donkey. No nativity scene is complete without one ? how else would Mary and Joseph gotten to the manger? It turns out that the donkey is still the cheapest way to get around modern-day Bethlehem. Through decades of conflict, poverty and instability in the […]

Movies and novels are increasingly giving men with Asperger’s the leading role. The Takeaway asks New York Times health editor David Corcoran and New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein how such films affect the community they portray.

BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool is tracing the Biblical footsteps of Mary and Joseph from Nazareth to Bethlehem. The modern-day route is rife with checkpoints, militants and a few irate locals. And what’s more, Maqbool’s doing it all with a donkey in tow.