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 has identified an asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, with a 3.1% chance of striking Earth on December 22, 2032, marking the most significant impact...
Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist who proposed that cities should grow food in high-rises, popularizing the term “vertical farming” — an idea that crossed over...
The Trump administration on Tuesday cut more than 10 percent of the work force at the National Science Foundation, an independent agency that supports...
Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment Correspondent, BBC World ServiceGetty ImagesScientists have said there can be no new fossil fuel extraction and there needs to be a...
Autonomous driving technology company Waymo has partnered with automaker Zeekr to develop the next generation of vehicles for ride-hailing services.Zeekr provides the base...
Deep in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, physicists have uncovered evidence of a ghostly subatomic particle catapulting through space at a speed they...
President Trump has nominated Kathleen Sgamma, a professional advocate for the oil and gas industry, to run the Bureau of Land Management, an agency...