A biography of scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc explores the complex, disparate lives of two brilliant men who shaped the study of natural history.

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Bethany Kolody prepares water samples aboard the NOAAS Ronald H. Brown, during the P18 GO-SHIP voyage from Easter Island to Antarctica in the Sout ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...

In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial ...

Page from Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell (translated by Studio Proteus), 1991. © the artist / Kodansha Co, Ltd. All ...