twins

Can Losing an Identical Twin to Suicide Doom the Survivor to the Same Fate?

Monozygotic twins share 100 percent of their DNA, but scientists are still unsure just how encoded suicidal tendencies might be in our genes

A Very Reflective Look at Doppelgängers

Why are we so obsessed with strangers who look kinda sorta quite a lot alike?

These Twin Brothers Were Sexually Abused in Their Childhood — But Only One of Them Remembers

In the new Netflix documentary ‘Tell Me Who I Am,’ director Ed Perkins chronicles how Alex Lewis’s coma and memory loss inspired his brother Marcus to keep their traumatic past secret

For Conjoined Twins, Independence is Dangerous—and Unwanted

“Free at Last.” That was the headline of a November 1993 New York magazine story featuring a photograph of infant twins Carmen and Rosa Taveras, several…