Today, these microbial partners work in the soil across millions of acres of farmland worldwide, helping farmers grow more ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Researchers create a genome database of earthworms that goes back 200 million years, and find out how their evolution was ...

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

At issue was whether school systems are required to provide parents with an "opt-out" option when parents claim their ...

Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped away phrases like “climate change” and “biological evolution” from what students ...

The most provocative theory in contemporary science—that cosmic rays are the inspirers of biological evolution—was discussed this week by Dr. Gioacchino Failla in the abstruse Journal of ...