Teachers often face difficult questions about evolution, many from parents and others who object to evolution being taught. Science has good answers to these questions, answers that draw on the ...

A look at the history of the theories and the Church's response shows that some things haven't changed ... Here's the next article in our Series on Church and Science. So let’s look at a famous case ...

Reporters from across the United States flocked to eastern Tennessee in July 1925. In the small town of Dayton, biology teacher John Scopes went on trial for the crime of teaching human evolution.

In fact, it's happened so often that there's a scientific term for it: carcinization. If you close your eyes and think of a crab, you might picture a round, flat body. Big front claws and multiple ...

A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...

In new research, Arizona State University scientists and their colleagues investigated genetic changes occurring in a naturally isolated population of the water flea, Daphnia pulex. This tiny ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

Third grade teacher Tracey Broughton teaches students at Perry Creek Elementary School in Sioux City. Iowa’s current draft of its K-12 science standards, which include changing the word “evolution” to ...

NOVA has been following the evolution of artificial intelligence since it was a zygote. In our 1978 film The Mind Machines, Arthur C. Clarke predicted, “I think that what we’re doing now is in a sense ...