To cook them properly, most dried beans need to be soaked overnight, discarding the soaking water, and cooking them in fresh water. This process aids digestion, while facilitating the absorption of ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

The history of science is full of tales of unappreciated genius. Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor ...

That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

On this day 200 years ago, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering St. Thomas's Abbey in Austria-Hungary as an Augustinian Friar) and ...

Gregor Mendel, an Austrian scientist who lived and conducted much of his most important research in a Czechoslovakian monastery, established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on pea ...

Situated on the foundations of the 19th-century greenhouse where Austrian monk Gregor Mendel conducted history-changing genetic experiments with peas, a new glass structure will host lectures, ...

The Gregor Mendel Foundation's specifications for the Innovation Award are short and to the point: the award, which went to Prof. Dr Nils Stein and Dr Martin Mascher from the IPK in Berlin today, is ...

Gregor Mendel features in today's Google doodle. Here are ten facts about him: 1) Gregor Mendel was born into a German family in the Austrian Empire which is now known as Czech Republic. He was ...

Gregor Mendel, the man credited with founding the science of genetics, has had his 189th birthday celebrated in the latest Google Doodle. The illustration replacing Google's traditional logo on the ...