What do coal, viruses and DNA have in common? The structures of each – the predominant power source of the early 20th century, one of the most remarkable forms of life on Earth and the master molecule ...

Artist Kate Thompson worked samples of synthetic DNA into the ink and acrylic coating for her portrait of DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin. (University of Washington Photo / Dennis Wise) Art imitates ...

The Dark Lady of DNA. SOME feminist historians like to compare British scientist Rosalind Franklin and poet Sylvia Plath. Both women were extremely talented in their respective fields; both died ...

Today would have been the 100th birthday of English chemist Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant and dedicated scientist best known for the honor denied her: the 1962 Nobel Prize for discovering the ...

From DNA to nuclear physics, women made landmark discoveries only to be written out of history. This feature explores the ...

ROSALIND FRANLIN'S LEGACY REVISITED: The story of how, and what, British researcher Rosalind Franklin contributed has long painted the chemist as a victim of theft by renowned "discoverers" of the DNA ...

I once attended a series of lectures at the Brookhaven National Laboratory delivered by James Watson. In his initial talk he spoke of the historical events that surrounded the discovery of the ...

A fundamental concept of Rosalind Franklin University’s Innovation and Research Park in North Chicago is providing a place where scientists from academia and the corporate world can work side by side, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency (ESA) has named its next Mars rover, due to touch down on the Red ...

Update: On March 17, 2022, the European Space Agency announced it was suspending the 2022 ExoMars launch that would have included the Rosalind Franklin rover. We will monitor the status of the mission ...