A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but ...

Do new traits in evolution happen slowly, or all at once? Two new studies in the journal Science may finally help us solve this mystery. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ---------- Huge thanks go to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the ...

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.

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that shaped her career and her outlook on life. When you purchase through links ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

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 ...

A chance discovery in a Vermont cheese cave has given scientists a rare glimpse of evolution unfolding in real time – and the unexpected findings have broad implications for protecting human health, ...