The many and varied attempts to curtail the teaching of the theory of evolution in the public schools is probably the most conspicuous evidence that people in America continue to worry mightily about ...

There's a new and interesting report out from the Pew Research Center comparing beliefs about and attitudes towards science, comparing what scientists believe with what the general public seems to ...

In the genomic era, as scientists become more adept at extracting biological meaning from an ever expanding repository of sequenced genomes, it is likely that our next of kin will again hold promising ...