Some ideas feel so obvious and make so much sense that you’d think they existed for millennia. But it’s incredible how fast science has moved in the past two centuries. The strides that we’ve made may seem so conspicuous that you can’t imagine a world without them, but you’d be surprised. These five scientific assumptions and discoveries are more recent than you might imagine.
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In 1953, we learned that DNA was a double helix, a twisted ladder structure that would be called deoxyribonucleic acid. James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery would change history and begin a new field of study called molecular biology. For the first time, we understood that our genes controlled many of the processes in the body. Researchers already knew that a gene was the smallest form of genetic information, but they did not yet know what the structure looked like.
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