Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters ...

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has struck a partnership with Google’s AI research lab to speed up the development of its ...

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

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

“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 ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to ...