He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James Watson and Francis Crick — the first to figure out DNA’s shape — stole data from another scientist named Rosalind Franklin.

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

The Nobel Prize is the most significant recognition of a scientist’s work, but it also shines a spotlight that follows the recipient for the rest of their life. Such scrutiny can sometimes taint the ...

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It immediately gathered a storm of protests, particularly because W&C were now accused ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats to some of history’s forgotten ...

New research sheds light on how electrons interact with the innate vibrations within DNA molecules, known as phonons, which ...

Other discoveries we didn't know originated in Britain were the jet engine, developed by Sir Frank Whittle in 1930, and the unravelling of the DNA helix by the Briton Francis Crick and American James ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.

A new hereditary condition has been discovered that affects patients' ability to repair DNA—leaving them both at greater risk of developing blood cancer, and unable to repair some of the damage ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

While the new study marks the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new exoplanet through direct imaging, the observatory confirmed an earlier discovery of a potential ...