They’re slow, ancient, and nearly indestructible, but which turtle build reigns supreme? Using a video game-inspired analysis ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

What scientific knowledge is and is not presumed in legal reasoning, and what are the differences between what is and what is ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...

"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a careful path through it. Every menstruation is testament to it. It is partly ...

Researchers at Scripps have created T7-ORACLE, a powerful new tool that speeds up evolution, allowing scientists to design and improve proteins thousands of times faster than nature. Using engineered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment. Antibiotics are powerful, fast-acting medications designed to eradicate ...

Speakers at a school board meeting and on social media have voiced opposition, citing religious beliefs and a desire for more open discussion. The letter states that evolution is a unifying scientific ...