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...
Business & FinanceEnvironment05 March 2024, 2:23 pm 1 minute
Reuters exclusively reported that a United Nations-backed alliance of banks is proposing its members disclose more...
British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in the United Kingdom.Teams...
After the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the PSLV-C60 carrying the SpaDeX spacecraft on Monday, marking its final mission of 2024, the...
Weapons in space. Fighter jets powered by artificial intelligence.As the Biden administration comes to a close, one of its legacies will be kicking off...
You’ve got dinner in the oven, you’re looking for extra glasses, and your cousin’s kid screams (again), "What’s the Wi-Fi password?" You’re juggling...
Environment24 May 2024, 2:40 pm 1 minute
Reuters exclusively reported that the world’s small island states plan to join forces to push for debt relief...
Zhenbo Wang is an associate professor of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee.In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world.NASA's Europa Clipper began...