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

A Seattle mother is fighting for justice and urging whoever is behind her son’s death to turn themselves in as she turns to ...

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...

Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug ...

On this episode of New Mexico Crime Files, KRQE Anchors Dean Staley and Jessica Garate continue their discussion around ...

Duke is no military academy, but there’s so much of Mike Krzyzewski’s Army background baked into what the Blue Devils do, ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

James Watson helped his research partners to discover the double helix structure of DNA and died of unknown causes at an East ...

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

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...