We in science profess to believe that knowledge is good, for its own sake. Knowledge, the story goes, helps us lead a better-informed life r...

Well, score another big one for science....big bust, that is.  It now turns out, a news stor y about a new paper reports, that vitamins can ...

In the first post of this little series, we reviewed some of the history of ideas about the orderliness of Nature and how we discover and ch...

Happily, one of our favorite BBC Radio 4 programs, In Our Time , is back on the air after a summer hiatus.  The most recent program was a...

The search for signatures of natural selection keeps many anthropologists, and biologists in general, occupied these days, and in turn, jour...

Many programs in the K-12 education crisis in the US aim to raise 'the' levels of achievement of kids in our way-behind school syste...

The October Carnival of Evolution is up, hosted by Kevin Zelnio over at Scientific American blogs.