The September Carnival of Evolution is up.  They're getting longer and longer.

Here's another example of cooperation in nature that was largely unexpected and is an installment in our  life-as-cooperation campaign. ...

Monday's op-ed column by economist Paul Krugman in the NY Times criticizes Republican presidential candidates for their anti-science po...

One of the themes of our eponymous book, and of MT the blog as well, is the pervasiveness of cooperation in the nature of life.  We view thi...

Individually coded ants (photo from JEB). A study published in the September 15 issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology (and repo...

In May, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on the 'Prevention and Control of non-communicable diseases' (...

Everybody knows that obesity is a risk factor for many diseases, as well as decreased life span -- except that what everybody knows isn'...