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 ...

Many people think of science as something distant and a little intimidating. A world of labs, equations and experts that has ...

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, ...

Photograph 51, the famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling in 1952, was a key piece of data that lead to James Watson and Francis ...

You can be forgiven if you’re not familiar with today’s Google Doodle of Rosalind Franklin. Though she did much of the important X-ray crystallography work that set the stage for James Watson and ...

EXCLUSIVE: In what is lining up to be one of hotter packages at this year’s Cannes market, we can reveal that Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to star in Photograph 51 for The King’s Speech ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Chemist Rosalind Franklin died sixty years ago today, on April 16, 1958, without ...