Getty ImagesIn February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an idle boast.One was James Watson, an American biologist from the Cavendish laboratory; the other was his British research partner, Francis Crick. Their discovery - of the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA - ranks alongside those of Mendel and Darwin in its significance to modern science.The full Promethean power of their achievement would slowly emerge over decades of research by fellow...
NASA’s Perseverance rover, currently exploring the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars, has made a striking new discovery—an unusual, dark-colored rock now officially named...
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow...
The White House has ordered federal agencies to stop considering the economic damage caused by climate change when writing regulations, except in cases where...
Georgina RannardClimate and science reporterKate Stephens and Tony JolliffeBBC climate and science teamTony Jolliffe/BBC NewsThe team has a year to finish their research. By...