Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have shown that a jet of material propelled from the core of a giant galaxy is channeled by a corkscrew-shaped ...

James Watson, who helped discover DNA’s double-helix structure, has died at the age of 97. Watson died in hospice care following a brief illness, his son said on Friday, Nov. 7, according to the ...

Magnetism, as we experience it every day, makes us usually think of materials such as iron, nickel, or cobalt that generate permanent magnetic fields or are attracted by magnetic forces. In these ...

Inspired by a pond microorganism that retracts its spiral stalk using geometry alone, soft gel helices now wind and unwind on their own to amplify motion.

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...