The current MAGA evangelical attacks on science threaten to make America less safe, less healthy and much dumber.

One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach ...

One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial has lessons — urgent ones — for today ...

After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

The Charles Darwin archive now joins this esteemed list, underscoring its historical, scientific, and cultural significance. The inscription of the Charles Darwin archive comes as part of UNESCO’s ...

The Charles Darwin archive now joins this esteemed list, underscoring its historical, scientific, and cultural significance. The inscription of the Charles Darwin archive comes as part of UNESCO’s ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments ... issue with ...

In considering Charles Darwin as one of—or perhaps even—the best scientist-writers of all time, it is clear that it is the combination of keen observational power, groundbreaking scientific discovery, ...

Charles Darwin thought evolution happened very slowly, but South Florida’s anole species are proving that change can happen much quicker than science had previously known.

Charles Darwin, the British naturalist, thought that life began in "some little warm pond" filled with inorganic chemicals that became complex organic chemicals or molecules.

The nineteenth-century voyage of HMS Beagle and the adventures of Charles Darwin have generated some of the richest stories in the history of science, ones filled with excitement and discovery.