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...
Spanish archaeologists have successfully removed a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from waters off the country's southeastern coast, two decades after the relic was initially found, officials...
Getty ImagesJenna Hegarty, head of policy at the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN), said the decision was "long overdue".The current application for emergency use...
Humans aren't alone when it comes to yawning — all vertebrates do it too, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. But why?The "evolutionarily ancient"...
EconomyEnvironment26 September 2024, 5:56 pm 1 minute
Reuters exclusively reported that at least five African countries are working on what could be the world’s first...