The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

The breakthrough — made when the brash, Chicago-born Watson was just 24 — turned him into a hallowed figure in the world of ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

Scientists discover a new species of spiny dragon millipede, Desmoxytes group, found exclusively in damp caves and with ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

Deanna Smith first went missing in 1999; her body wasn’t found until 2003, but no one knew it was her until over 20 years ...