Science

James Watson, co-discoverer of the shape of DNA and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 97

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a

Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T.

A record-setting marine heat wave stripped huge portions of Florida’s coral reef of their colors in 2023, triggering the ninth

After two years of trying to get pregnant, Maggie Quinn and Ricardo Escobar faced a financial obstacle they hadn’t expected:

We know very little about the brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi), whose habitat stretches from Louisiana to Texas and Colorado. But

Global climate change limit efforts are off-track from the 2030 goals set out by the Paris Agreement in 2016, according

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles everything from moon explosions to Superman’s time-traveling tricks in his new book, “Just Visiting This

Tokyo — An agitated bear roamed the aisles of a grocery store in central Japan, injuring two men and frightening

Twelve people were injured, two of them critically, in what police are calling a “gunfight” that broke out at the