Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Francis Crick

In 1953, scientists pieced together a twisted molecule, and DNA finally had a shape

Scientists uncovered DNA's double helix structure in 1953. James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the model. It explained how genetic information is stored and copied. This discovery transformed biology. It built upon earlier research and X-ray images. The double helix became a foundation for modern life sciences. Many scientists contributed…

The Economic Times

What is consciousness? Michael Pollan spent 4 years looking for the answer

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages.

The Conversation

Can a Nobel Prize be gifted or sold? Some have done it in the past

Although Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it is not unprecedented. Rules state that Machado could give away her actual medal but not the honour itself.

Euronews

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science

Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA

The Guardian - UK

James Watson Dies at 97: The DNA Pioneer Remembered as Both a Scientific Genius and a Controversial Figure

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, has died aged 97, reigniting global debate over his controversial legacy and racist remarks.

International Business Times UK

James Watson helped crack DNA's code, sparking medical advances and ethical debates

James Watson, the scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA, died on Nov. 6, 2025, at the age of 97

The Independent UK

James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist most known for co-winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the structure of DNA and its significance in transferring information in living systems. The importance of this discovery cannot be overstated. It unlocked how genes work and gave…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

12 Unique Ideas That Were Stolen From Their Original Owners

Innovation shapes our world, but not every breakthrough gets credited to the right person. History is full of unique ideas that were stolen from their original owners, leaving inventors and creators without the recognition they deserved. Sometimes, these ideas were taken intentionally; other times, the theft was more subtle, happening…

Budget and the Bees

Juliet Stevenson admits Nicole Kidman annoyed her by claiming she popularised scientist’s story

English actor played Rosalind Franklin three decades before Hollywood star

The Independent UK

Just 3 Nobel Prizes cover all of science – how research is done today poses a challenge for these prestigious awards

I’ve been primarily an experimental chemist – the kind of person who goes into the laboratory and mixes and stirs chemicals – since the beginning of my career in 1965. Today, and for the past 15 years, I’m a full-time historian of chemistry.

The Conversation

Nothing is not nothing: how a scientist set out to sing the story of our origins

At the close of the 18th century, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote one of his masterpieces: an oratorio – a large concert piece for orchestra, choir and solo singers – entitled The Creation, with a libretto based on the biblical story of the creation of the world.

The Conversation

OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: New twist in DNA discovery

There’s a new twist in the tale of how Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA.

Evening Standard

Unravelling DNA's structure: a landmark achievement whose authors were not fairly credited

Seventy years ago, two male scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson, proclaimed they had discovered the secret of life: the structure of DNA. Since then, history has acknowledged how Rosalind Franklin was sidelined. But new archive evidence has cast doubt on the widely accepted narrative – that Franklin collected an…

The Conversation

Rosalind Franklin's role in DNA discovery gets a new twist

The story of how scientists discovered DNA's shape may be getting another twist

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Academics find twist in tale of Rosalind Franklin, DNA and the double helix

Authors say scientist’s role was acknowledged at the time of discovery – contrary to popular narrative

LiveScience

Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals

A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.

Financial Times

300 nuclear missiles are headed your way. You must respond. What now?

Inside Moran Cerf’s quest to modernise the decision-making process that could end life on earth

The Hindu

Triple helix: the story of G.N. Ramachandran, a deprived genius

Ramachandran and his scholar Gopinath Kartha proposed the structure of collagen in two years (1954), which was the famous “triple helix”

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

‘Neuroscience needs a breakthrough like discovery of DNA double helix’

There are some promising leads in the field, says V.S. Ramachandran

The Independent UK

Sidney Altman: Nobel-winning biologist who changed the way RNA is viewed

His research upset the conventional understanding of cellular biology and of how genetic information is transmitted

The Conversation

Har Gobind Khorana: The chemist who cracked DNA's code and made the first artificial gene was born into poverty 100 years ago in an Indian village

2022 marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana – or so we think. The exact date of his birth is not known, because Khorana was born in poverty in a British Indian class that rarely recorded such dates. As a child, he had to beg…

The Conversation

Florence Bell: the ‘housewife’ who played a key part in our understanding of DNA

When the Yorkshire Evening News reported on an address delivered by 25-year-old physicist Florence Bell at a scientific conference held in Leeds in 1939, it wasn’t her science that made the headlines, but simply the fact that she was a woman doing science.

People

Alexander Graham Bell

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Northwestern University

University of Colorado

46 stories

the Russian Academy of Sciences

17 stories

the Nobel Foundation

13 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.