By the time James Watson died earlier this month at the age of 97, he was one of the world’s most famous — and infamous — scientists. In 1953, he and three fellow researchers co-discovered the ...

Some still use Watson’s scientific authority to justify their own racism, while others insist he simply stole credit from ...

There’s more to dna than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...