One of the world’s most eminent scientists is at the centre of a row after reportedly claiming black people are less intelligent than whites.

MEMBERS of the public are being invited to vote on the greatest medical advances in more than a century.

THE British-born scientist who helped discover the genetic blueprint of life, DNA, has died.

Nobel Prize-winning British scientist Francis Crick, who with James Watson discovered the spiral, ”double-helix” structure of DNA, paving the way for everything from DNA blood tests to genetically engineered tomatoes, has died. He was 88.

A SCIENTIST has revealed the crucial role played by a condom in the discovery of the structure of DNA.