Nicholas Wade

In the race to identify the hormones used to control bodily functions, he battled with his former partner. They later shared the glory.

Experts hope that the techniques used to retrieve hidden text on delicate papyrus could lead to the recovery of lost classic works.

He received a Nobel Prize for his finding. Some criticized the prize because it was a graduate student in his lab who had first detected the signals.

Researchers report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them to a youthful state.

Dr. Leder, who also discovered a genetic cause of cancer, said he got his best scientific ideas while listening to classical music.

The burial structures were looted during antiquity, but beads and a pendant depicting Hathor, an Egyptian goddess, suggest earlier trade links between Pylos, Greece, and Egypt.

Nocturnal moths evolved into daytime butterflies not to escape bats, as biologists once thought, but to enjoy an abundant new drink: the nectar of flowering plants.

A Nobel Prize winner, he was a central player in the golden age of molecular biology, beginning with the discovery of the structure of DNA.

With a new genetic tool, scientists move a step closer to eradicating mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry.

Lead pollution embedded in a Greenland glacier recorded peak periods of wealth as well as crises, like the Cyprian plague.