For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

A groundbreaking development has emerged in Collier County, as a woman's remains discovered more than 50 years ago have finally been identified. Thanks to advancements in forensic genetic genealogy, ...

Rosalind Franklin was a brilliant physical chemist whose X-ray diffraction work revealed the structure of DNA with unprecedented clarity. Without her knowledge, her assistant shared the image with ...

Scientists have created a live-cell DNA sensor that reveals how damage appears and disappears inside living cells, capturing the entire repair sequence as it unfolds. Instead of freezing cells at ...

Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami. More recently, some of these teams started ...

Even before its full science operations have begun, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has already helped astronomers find something remarkable. The observatory's first images, revealed in June, ...

Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison confirmed Thursday they are investigating an image that appeared on campus encouraging violence against ICE agents. The image, first spotted by a student ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS exhibits a bright, extended ion tail while releasing gas and dust as it travels through the inner solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97. Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made the groundbreaking discovery at just 24 years old alongside British ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 ...