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James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab....

From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions.Summer temperatures in Death Valley National Park frequently exceed 50° Celsius (122° Fahrenheit). During that peak heat, most...

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting.The birds exhale with each strike, much like a tennis pro groaning through a stroke. Elaborate coordination between those breaths and muscles across the body keep their hammering at a perfectly...

Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that “boards” a superconducting material...

What if clinicians could place tiny electronic chips in the brain that electrically stimulate a precise target,...

Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentDavid BraunAt around 2.75 million years ago, the region was populated by some of the very first humans, who had relatively small brains. These early humans are thought to have lived alongside their evolutionary ancestors: a pre-human...

Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by flipping them over to incapacitate them before eating their energy-filled liver, new research videos show....

Mark PoyntingClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsNaomi OchwatWhat followed was further loss of floating ice from the front of Hektoria, as large, flat-topped icebergs broke off or "calved", and the ice behind sped up and thinned.That is not unusual....

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Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporter, BBC News and Becky Dale and Wesley Stephenson,Senior data journalists, BBC VerifyGetty ImagesWater companies have been ordered to tackle potentially harmful levels of so-called forever chemicals in drinking water sources for more than six...