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A scientific legend in his own time, James Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping discover the structure of DNA. Tomorrow he will sell the medal for income at a Christie’s auction.

Dr. James Watson can’t help but speak his mind. And this has gotten the co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix in trouble in the past. He has been called, among other things, […]

The X-ray crystallographer contributed some crucial pieces of information to Watson and Crick’s search for the double helix. But because she likely had Asperger’s syndrome, she was almost impossible to collaborate with.

The molecular biologist’s genome is the second to ever be sequenced. The results gave him some potentially life-saving information.

A conversation with the molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA.

James Watson: Up until now, machines have made our lives a lot better. I don’t thing they’ve depersonalized us so far. 

James Watson: If people had a longer life, human beings would progress more slowly.    

James Watson: I think we’re all in favor of being alive when we’re alive.  And of course, it’s how you define being alive.  

Does every type of cancer require its own individualized treatment, or might there be a universal cure? Scientists James Watson and Paul Davies suggest some new and unorthodox approaches to cancer treatment.

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.

One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.

The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.

The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.

Are we really only a moment away from “The Singularity,” a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?

75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”

The second in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.

These photos of scientific heroes and accomplishments inspire awe and curiosity.

Scientists have identified an alternative DNA structure described as a “twisted knot” inside living human cells. They’re calling it the i-motif.

The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.

Rosalind Franklin is most known for her role in first capturing the blueprint for life. Her efforts provided the evidence to deduce the double helix structure of DNA.

“In the decade since the Human Genome Project wrapped up, scientists have had a surprising amount of difficulty transforming genetic knowledge into medical treatments.”

Neuroscientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have published the first set of data which they collected by examining thin slices of a mouse’s brain to create a 3D diagram. 

“Too much experience…may restrict creativity because you know so well how things should be done that you are unable to escape to come up with new ideas.”

What happens when the complexity and magnitude of the problems facing our civilization “simply exceed our biological capabilities”? 

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JASON SILVA AND TECHNO-ECOLOGIC SCHOLAR RICHARD DOYLE Richard Doyle also goes by mobius, an indicator of just how important interconnections are to him – and how transformative, […]

GUEST POST BY JASON SILVA The spectacular think tank and apparel company The Imaginary Foundation states that “To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns”.  This seemingly simple sentence is actually utterly profound:  what it […]

n nGoogle’s attempt to make all of the world’s information searchable now extends to the human genome. As Walter Derzko of the Smart Economy blog points out, Google has just […]

The media has speculated that Arizona gunman Jared Loughner’s heavy use of marijuana could be behind his psychotic behavior. Forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone looks at the science behind this claim.

Tests for a specific gene can indicate elevated risk of the disease. But would you really want to know that you may get it?