Evolution is a hot-button issue right now, as new science standards are being developed for Minnesota’s K-12 education. If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to ...

Cancer was the second leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020. Although billions of dollars have been poured into cancer research, the results are still disappointing for many patients who pay ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

Adam Laats is a historian teaching at Binghamton University, specializing in the intersection of culture wars and education. He has a special gift for critically examining the positions of religious ...

A much-anticipated commercial computer game about evolution is getting a favorable response from some scholars, who welcome its interactive, engaging approach to the topic even though a few of its ...

Dr. Marcus Hale, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, has proposed a fascinating theory that could potentially ...

In his Tuesday letter, Charles Ardary claims intelligent design (ID) is not science because it cannot be tested. However, there are two forms of science: empirical and historical. The first involves ...

Textbooks—teachers’ road maps through the curriculum—generally do a respectable job of covering evolution, according to experts who have reviewed the books, though the thick volumes tend to be weaker ...

The evolution of the so-called dread risk response has been explained by new research. People often respond to ...

As evidence he is not a cartoonish rich man, Mitt Romney has invoked a political form of the discarded theory of Lamarckism while talking about how his father grew up poor and worked with his hands.