Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like studying genetics should be relatively straightforward. In truth, these strands ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment ...

If you know what diatoms are, it's probably because of their beauty. These single-celled algae found on the ocean floor have ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...