Scientists' Mysteries: Unveiling the Wonders of Life Through Scientific Exploration

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ian McEwan’s next novel is science fiction ‘without the science’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Meet the Infosys Prize winners from Bengaluru

The Hindu

Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey “Science and engineering are perceived in this un-characterised continuum with no history or grounding in time or place. But the only way we know how to conduct human activity – even when it is virtual – is at a specific time and in a specific place,” says Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru, who …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘Not a victim’: Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the mystery of DNA structure

Hindustan Times

New Delhi : It is a story often told and retold in scientific lore, a story of denial, yet also of inspiration, the story of Rosalind Franklin. The iconic British scientist’s work, some of it shared without her knowledge, helped James Watson and Francis Crick establish the double-helix structure of DNA — and they walked away with all the credit. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Rosalind Franklin's role in DNA discovery gets a new twist

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Rosalind Franklin’s role in DNA discovery gets a new twist

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The discovery of DNA’s double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit. Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James Watson and Francis Crick — the first to figure out DNA’s shape — stole data from …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Rosalind Franklin ‘was an equal contributor in the discovery of DNA structure’

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy British scientist Rosalind Franklin was “an equal contributor” in the discovery …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Scientist Rosalind Franklin’s often overlooked role in DNA discovery gets a new twist

LA Times

A model of a DNA molecule in 1962. The discovery of DNA’s “twisted ladder” structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who deserves credit. Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James Watson and Francis Crick — the first to figure out DNA’s shape — stole data …

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3 years, 3 months ago

E.O. Wilson, famed entomologist and pioneer in the field of sociobiology, dies at 92

NPR

Wilson, famed entomologist and pioneer in the field of sociobiology, dies at 92 Enlarge this image toggle caption Thomas James Hurst/AP Thomas James Hurst/AP Pioneering biologist, environmental activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson has died. Sponsor Message Paula J. Ehrlich, the foundation's CEO and president, described Wilson as a "relentless synthesizer of ideas" whose "courageous scientific focus and …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Edgar Allan Poe's life and work were intertwined with science, as a new biography sets out to prove

Firstpost

By James Dinneen “SCIENCE!…” opens a poem started in the late 1820s by a youthful Edgar Allan Poe and revised throughout his life. But as historian of science John Tresch argues in his new biography of Poe, “The Reason for the Darkness of the Night,” there’s another way to read the poem and indeed Poe, whose beloved phantasmagorical tales have …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Albert Einstein Discussed Relationship Between Physics and Biology Decades Before It Was Established

News 18

A paper published earlier this month revealed how Nobel laureate Albert Einstein had discussed the possibility of a relationship between biology and physics decades before it was actually established. Before Einstein wrote this letter, researchers also found that scientist Karl von Frisch had presented a paper at Princeton University in April 1949 on his new research on how honey bees …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Remembering Engels’ thoughts on science and socialism on his bicentenary

The Hindu

In 1842, 22-year-old Friedrich Engels’ family sent him to its textile firm in Manchester for apprenticeship. By degrees the class of farming weaver wholly disappeared.” The other factor which contributed was the steam engine and the popular view was contained in a poem that Engels quoted, “There is a King, and a ruthless King, Not a King of the poet’s …

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5 years, 2 months ago

NCBS Archives tells stories of how science blossomed here

The Hindu

In just about legible cursive handwriting, Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick writes a letter to Obaid Siddiqi, professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, apologising for failing to come and meet him in Mumbai. Over 50,000 such objects at the NCBS Archives — letters, photographs, old instruments, notebooks — tell stories of people at this institution and how science blossomed …

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6 years, 2 months ago

James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism

Wired

Scientific pedigrees are like any genealogical tree: When shaken, they can reveal family secrets. Early in her own career, however, Gottesman was an undergraduate research assistant in the lab of James Watson, the famed co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA. In effect—through his direct connection to Gottesman and because Watson’s work helped establish my fields of study—James Watson can …

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6 years, 2 months ago

Nobel-winning biologist James Watson stripped of titles after racist remarks, again

Firstpost

Watson has gotten in trouble more than a few times for racist views while Chancellor of CSHL. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist famous for formulating the double-helix model of DNA with his partner Francis Crick in the 1950s, Dr James Watson, was stripped of all his honorary titles by the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory after they found some of his recent …

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6 years, 2 months ago

DNA pioneer James Watson has final honours stripped amid racism row

The Independent

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Eminent geneticist James Watson has had the last …

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6 years, 9 months ago

A new look at human evolution

China Daily

A British historian's two-volume book tracing the development of human thought and how it has made us who we are over time has been released in Chinese. Despite the popularity of short works on history these days, British historian Peter Watson sticks with his form of comprehensive writing. The work dwells on the key achievements of mankind from the time …

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6 years, 9 months ago

A new look at human evolution

China Daily

A British historian's two-volume book tracing the development of human thought and how it has made us who we are over time has been released in Chinese. Despite the popularity of short works on history these days, British historian Peter Watson sticks with his form of comprehensive writing. The work dwells on the key achievements of mankind from the time …

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6 years, 9 months ago

A new look at human evolution

China Daily

Peter Watson talks to Su Qi, deputy editor of financial magazine Caijing, during a promotional event in Beijing. To deal with the numerous intellectual achievements of human civilization, Watson uses three of them－the soul, Europe and experiments－as clues to lay out the history of ideas. Speaking about the rise of Europe, he says it began in the heyday of the …

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6 years, 9 months ago

A new look at human evolution

China Daily

A British historian's two-volume book tracing the development of human thought and how it has made us who we are over time has been released in Chinese. Despite the popularity of short works on history these days, British historian Peter Watson sticks with his form of comprehensive writing. The work dwells on the key achievements of mankind from the time …

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7 years, 5 months ago

3 Americans win Nobel Prize in medicine for uncovering the science behind our biological clocks

LA Times

Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young are pictured on a display during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Oct. 2, 2017. Hall, Rosbash and Young would go on to discover a variety of genetic and cellular mechanisms that keep the circadian clocks of …

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7 years, 7 months ago

To Protect Genetic Privacy, Encrypt Your DNA

Wired

In 2007, DNA pioneer James Watson became the first person to have his entire genome sequenced—making all of his 6 billion base pairs publicly available for research. They didn’t actually do it, but database managers wasted no time in redacting another two million base pairs surrounding the APOE gene. In 2013, when he realized he needed more genomic data, his …

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7 years, 8 months ago

Remembering Rosalind Franklin, the unsung hero whose research helped discover the structure of DNA

India Today

The double helical DNA structure that we needed to learn drawing in our science classes wasn't known till hardly a few decades ago. Meeting and inspiring Watson and Crick Along with yet another DNA enthusiast from Cambridge, Francis Crick, Watson created a 3D model of DNA It was only when they invited the London researchers to check out their model …

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8 years ago

Science watcher and entrepreneur

The Hindu

LEWIS CARROLL, writing under his real name, Charles Dodgson, suggested “that the proper definition of ‘Man’ is an ‘animal’ that writes letters”. And every paper that is found provides a list of new citations with which to continue the search.” Impact factors The “impact factor” can be traced to Garfield’s original 1955 article: “Thus in the case of a highly …

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8 years, 5 months ago

The troubling history of eugenics

The Hindu

Amit Sharma, 2015 Infosys Laureate, delivered a case for an ethical, humanist approach to the sciences at the Infosys campus, Electronic City, on Thursday. Exploring the history of the ‘use and misuse’ of evolutionary thought, Dr. Sharma traced the dialectical relationship between Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, and the racial theories of Darwin’s first cousin Francis Galton, founder of the …

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8 years, 11 months ago

How much do you know about life, the universe and everything? Take the quiz

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A book by science author Brian Clegg, How Many Moons Does The Earth Have?, is …

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9 years, 1 month ago

Discovering the secret of life

The Hindu

In his best-selling book, The Double Helix, James D. Watson describes one particular instant from February 28, 1953. He recalls how he, a 25-year-old American bacteriologist and Francis H.C. Crick, a 37-year-old British physicist, had walked into the Eagle Pub before Crick had made his announcement - “We have discovered the secret of life!” In case you are under the …

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9 years, 6 months ago

The Royal Society Winton Prize: Top scientists and shortlisted authors share the books that have excited them

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Here, the shortlisted authors, and some of the world’s top scientists, share the science books …

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10 years, 3 months ago

James Watson selling Nobel Prize: DNA structure discoverer’s history of racism and sexism.

Slate

Jim Watson is one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. Watson had been making racist and sexist remarks throughout his career, but he really outdid himself seven years ago when he told the Sunday Times that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their …

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10 years, 5 months ago

Origins of life on Earth could be explained by a new enzyme created in a TEST TUBE

Daily Mail

Creating enzymes that behave in this way reveals clues about our This acid is known as being essential for creating all known forms of life Scientists have mimicked natural evolution in a test tube to come up with an enzyme that may have been crucial to the origins of life on Earth. The enzyme is called ribozyme, and it is …

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10 years, 9 months ago

Nigel Calder: Prolific journalist and author who did much to educate the public in the understanding of science

The Independent

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11 years, 5 months ago

Science: For Good Or Evil?

NPR

Science: For Good Or Evil? Enlarge this image toggle caption Universal/The Kobal Collection Universal/The Kobal Collection In 1818, the 21-year-old Mary Shelley published the great classic of gothic literature, Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus. Two decades before Shelley's novel, the Italian Luigi Galvani had shown that electric pulses could make dead muscles twitch. In this case, society would be artificially …

Science Life

11 years, 8 months ago

Printpick

The Hindu

Thiruvananthapuram Fiction Carnival: Rawi Hage, Rs. 795 This new selection brings together nine of his classic tales and also includes vital extracts from his critical essay, ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’, in which he gave his own important definition of “weird fiction”. 799 Collection of the author’s favourite thinking tools, or 'intuition pumps', that he and others have developed for addressing …

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11 years, 11 months ago

the 'book' of life? › Analysis (ABC Science)

ABC

In Depth › Analysis Genes - the 'book' of life? "I think the models for evolution work well, our understanding of genes work well," says Crossley, who is Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Professor Simon Foote, who studies the genetic control of susceptibility to diseases such as malaria, agrees molecular genetics is "hideously …

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12 years, 5 months ago

Let’s ignore science at our peril

The Hindu

The world today is driven by scientific and technological developments. Recently, Tarun Gogoi, Assam Chief Minister, got into trouble for saying that the reason for the high population growth among Muslims in the State is their high illiteracy levels. Similarly, if we want to tackle water-borne diseases like cholera and typhoid, we need to use modern medicine and techniques like …

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12 years, 10 months ago

Chemistry by Candlelight

Wired

This essay is cross-posted from Download the Universe, a website dedicated to reviewing e-books. The recognition that we often best appreciate our extraordinary natural world by seeing it through the lens of the ordinary: crystalline structure as revealed by the stitchery of winter frost, the chemical dance of light and life found in the changing colors of leaves, the hot …

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13 years, 6 months ago

Sept. 20, 1952: Kitchen Blender Pegs DNA as Stuff of Life

Wired

1952: Geneticists Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase publish the findings of their so-called blender experiments, which conclude that DNA is where life's hereditary data is found. Prior to these experiments, so named because they were conducted using a regular kitchen blender, it was generally believed that proteins -- not DNA -- were the genetic stuff of life. Rosalind Franklin, the …

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14 years, 4 months ago

Those Dreadful Hammers

Wired

When I started graduate school in science journalism, my adviser insisted that I include history of science classes in my program. But, as happens when one really explores history of science, he also tells a wonderfully human tale of scientists, naturalists, amateur fossil collectors, and geologists as they seek to breathe life into these buried remnants of the past. As …

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14 years, 6 months ago

How Crick and Watson's DNA lab was a hive of genius – and sexism

The Independent

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A batch of "lost" letters written 50 years ago has cast new …

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15 years ago

Print: E. O. Wilson Takes Evolutionary Approach to the Novel

Wired

The club of scientists who write fiction is small, but its members tend to be accomplished. And now another giant has joined their ranks: Harvard naturalist and biologist E. O. Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has contributed landmark works in the fields of insect behavior and biological anthropology. Anthill tells the parallel stories of Raff Cody, a southern …

Wilson Novel

15 years, 3 months ago

Great Minds in Modern Science Writing Don't All Think Alike

Wired

I have often wanted to sink my teeth into real writing by real scientists, but I don't feel qualified to dig through the endless of pages of writing to find snippets that get to the point. The book is The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, and Oxford University Press was kind enough to send me a review copy. Richard …

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16 years, 1 month ago

The father of evolution turns 200-英语点津

China Daily

Download The world marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth this month. VOICE ONE: John Henslow suggested that Charles Darwin take the unpaid position of naturalist for a trip on the British ship H.M.S. VOICE TWO: Charles Darwin had poor health much of his life. VOICE ONE: Charles Darwin's personal life was also expanding. VOICE ONE: Charles Darwin developed …

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16 years, 10 months ago

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, ed. Richard Dawkins

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Richard Dawkins's profile has morphed in recent years: from the most …

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24 years, 8 months ago

Scopes Trial Anniversary/ Teaching Evolution

NPR

Scopes Trial Anniversary/ Teaching Evolution Guests: Edward J. Larson Author, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute www.discovery.org Professor, History and Law University of Georgia Athens, Georgia Kenneth R. Miller Author, Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, Professor, Biology Brown University …

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32 years, 2 months ago

Obituary: Anthony Huxley

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy OF ALL his books, Anthony …

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