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...
Monstrous hurricanes Helene and Milton caused so much complex havoc that damages are still being added up, but government and private experts say they...
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It's been decades since Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct and scientists say they've made a breakthrough as they research...
Getty ImagesForest feedback loopAdding to the concerns about the way the world is handling climate change, the World Meteorological Organisation says that concentrations of...
Paris — Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2023, the United Nations warned on Monday, saying countries are falling "miles...