Anyone who has gone through the US public school system has undoubtedly been exposed to the textbook version of science as a linear process that takes researchers straight from a hypothesis through ...

The Understanding Evolution Web site launched in 2004 in response to the need among schoolteachers for resources to help teach evolution. Before long, however, two interesting factors emerged. One was ...

The aurora phenomenon is one of the most breathtaking natural displays on Earth. This article explores the science behind the Northern and Southern Lights, explaining how solar particles collide with ...

As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged. Educators in European ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We are on the brink of a massive technological revolution as we slowly move from the water and steam-powered first industrial revolution ...

Everyone needs to understand the basics of science to participate fully in the democratic process. Conversation image via www.shutterstock.com. Science isn’t important only to scientists or those who ...

Much to the chagrin of summer party planners, weather is a notoriously chaotic system. Small changes in precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind speed or direction, etc. can balloon into an entirely ...

IN this book the President of Harvard University addresses himself to the problem of preparing suitable university courses (whether for graduates or undergraduates is not clear) for the purpose of ...