One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently published a religion and science addition to its Topics and Questions series addressing four subjects: the general compatibility of science and ...

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

WEEK. ALL RIGHT, JASON, THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, SOME IOWANS ARE RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT NEW PROPOSED STATE SCIENCE STANDARDS. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S PROPOSAL WOULD REMOVE THE PHRASE CLIMATE ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

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The search space for protein engineering grows exponentially with complexity. A protein of just 100 amino acids has 20100 ...