A recent article in the October 29th issue of Nature by Richard Lenski and his group at Michigan State (Genome evolution and adaptation in a...

We recently heard Lynn Margulis interviewed on another BBC radio program we like, Best of Natural History, in an episode that aired last sum...

We are posting this Research Highlight from today's Nature magazine in total, because it's short and because, well, it deserves to b...

On Friday I spoke at a conference for current and future K-12 science teachers hosted by Kean University in New Jersey. My host was Profes...

There was a story in the NY Times Week in Review section on Sunday about intelligence in dogs. They are increasingly being used in servic...

The recent announcement of a new 4.4 million year old human ancestor, named Ardipithecus, has led to a flood of papers, debates, and publici...

We have often commented on what we call 'tribalism', or ideology as it applies to human affairs, science included. Some commenters ...