This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...

This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...

Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.

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Maybe the world is like an armillary sphere. Metallic balls representing celestial objects are placed just-so along spherical rings, tracing an at-first...

Just over 125 years has passed since the ‘filterable’ agents of tobacco mosaic disease and foot-and-mouth disease were first described as infectious, replicating entities smaller than bacteria. Today,...

The Francis Crick of Matthew Cobb’s new biography was both the consummate insider and a scientific outlier.

Physicists combined human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all

La Jolla, California—December 11, 2025—Each year, the world produces more than 400 million metric tons of plastic, much of which ends up in...

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Gregory J. Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4401-7. $50.00 (hardcover).

ABSTRACT Rosalind Franklin is best known for her informative X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA that provided vital clues for James Watson and Francis Crick's double-stranded helical model. Her scienti...

Children and young people faced long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or

Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?

Could it be the world-famous Migaloo who hasn’t been spotted in five years?

Emeritus Professor Hamish Spencer recalls that, even when he was a child collecting shells from his local Bay of Plenty beaches, he was fascinated by the diversity of animals and how they relate to ea...

The wingless bird that ruled the roost. Episode 13. Remembering Moa 🥚 #moa #frankfilm #storiesfromthesouth.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.

The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.