A set of proposed life-science textbooks in Louisiana appears on track for adoption by the state’s school board, despite complaints that the materials don’t provide information questioning the theory ...

Finding the origin of life on Earth has been a goal for scientists for decades. However, like anything, it's always based on theories and possible evidence, which can often change and evolve as we ...

A state panel in Louisiana voted earlier today to recommend a new batch of life science textbooks, despite complaints by critics of the theory of evolution, the Associated Press reports. The advisory ...

Everybody knows that science textbooks (or any textbooks, for that matter) are notorious for their high prices. Thus, it is always refreshing—and a bit exhilarating—to come across entire free texts.

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

No, oxygen didn't catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth's first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of ...