This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

The scientist leaves behind a complicated legacy after making a slew of offensive remarks during the later part of his life.

James Dewey Watson, the famed scientific mind who co-discovered the structure of DNA alongside Francis H.C. Crick, winning ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

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

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved ...

Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in ...

James Watson, who helped discover DNA’s double-helix structure, has died at the age of 97 following a brief illness.