Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

DNA is found in nearly all living cells ... representing distances between the nucleotides that were arranged in a spiral shape called a helix. Around the same time, researchers James Watson ...

Far beyond the edge of what the naked eye can see, a giant spiral galaxy has offered scientists a glimpse into a possible ...

Astronomers have uncovered a powerful cosmic outlier that may hold clues to the Milky Way’s long-term fate. At the heart of a ...

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this ...

Shortly after, Watson and Crick made a crucial advance when they proposed that the DNA molecule was made up of two chains of nucleotides paired in such a way to form a double helix, like a spiral ...

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...