The highlights of high-school biology used to be a juicy chapter about sex and an even juicier one about dissecting frogs. Today, kids are facing complexities of molecular genetics, cellular structure ...

In recent years, US courts have consistently ruled that teaching explicitly religious alternatives to evolution in public schools is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. But ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...