Only four years after the successful mapping of the human genome — the 3 billion bits of DNA that make up our code of life — the most striking outcome for genome scientists like myself has been an ...

Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had been regarded as settled and beyond challenge. But as David Quammen ...

The stickers, he said, are not aimed at encouraging the teaching of creationism, but rather at allowing for discussion of a variety of theories. Cobb County’s school board voted in 2002 to attach the ...

ATLANTA — A federal judge Thursday ordered school officials in an Atlanta suburb to remove stickers they had placed in biology textbooks stating that “evolution is a theory, not a fact” that should be ...

A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...

Lord is the author of "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science" and "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll." Two hundred years after his birth, English scientist Charles ...