A catastrophic fire at the 'Burj by Romulan' nightclub in Alpora, North Goa, has claimed at least 25 lives. The tragedy has ...

In this Special Report, Tamil Nadu BJP State Secretary Vinoj P. Selvam criticises the ruling DMK government over the ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

Chennai’s weekend lineup has it all. And there’s a yuletide performance at Madras Guild of Performing Arts to kick-start the ...

As the BJP pushes into Tamil Nadu, it runs up against a 100-year-old ideology built on language, social justice, rationalism ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a mysterious Indigenous group that lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study reports. Although the people of this newfound "deep lineage" lived at ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97. Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made the groundbreaking discovery at just 24 years old alongside British ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to ...