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...
Under President Trump’s proposed budget, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would largely become the National Moon and Mars Administration, with an almost singular...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America...
Jonah FisherBBC environment correspondentReporting fromKarlsruhe, GermanyOver the next few months the lynx will be monitored to see if it has the necessary skills to...
The FBI warns that scammers are impersonating doctors, police and banks using spoofed numbers, while "smishing" texts impersonating toll agencies and delivery services...
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the oldest known ant fossil, dating back 113 million years, in northeastern Brazil. Published in the journal...
The 36-page official national strategy document bears the presidential seal and involves 10 agencies from across the federal government.It isn’t the government’s policy on...