On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

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James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...

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For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty ...

A team of scientists is employing a technique used to detect invasive species to search for troops lost at sea.

Bucking convention at every turn, 'Pluribus' can be fitfully satisfying from scene to scene but its big ideas create a potent ...

Researchers have uncovered ancient cave art that rewrites the story of human cultural origins, The art features arranged stencils made by blowing pigment over hands and geometric signs.

Pfizer is not alone among American health-care companies in feeling under the weather. Gilead Sciences, a biotech behemoth, also sold fewer drugs. GE HealthCare, a maker of fancy scanners, said net ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

Lise Barnéoud's Hidden Guests shows how this fascinating new field brings with it profound implications for medicine, and ...

Neuroscientist Matthew Sacchet is revealing how mastering meditation can not only enable transcendental states of bliss, but ...