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...
With TV cameras pointed at her, Felisa Wolfe-Simon began speaking at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2010.“I’ve discovered — I’ve led...
On January 7, 2025, a powerful earthquake struck Tibet near Mount Everest, registering a magnitude of 7.1 according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...
UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth.The European Space Agency (ESA) has said...