The shy young naturalist Charles Darwin, who voyaged around the world aboard HMS Beagle and became the bearded sage of rational scientific thought, is having a birthday this week - his 200th - and ...

LA's California Science Center is under fire (and facing a lawsuit) for scheduling, and then cancelling, a screening of a film about intelligent design. The American Freedom Alliance intended to show ...

With all the controversies and political debates that seem to surround such issues as how to teach students about science and evolution, parents might wish there were some informative and engaging ...

A few people had expressed interest in discussing Stephen Jay Gould's book, Ever Since Darwin, as part of a science discussion/reading group. The book was Gould's first collection of essays from his ...

Charles Darwin didn’t free the slaves or stop the South from seceding, and for obvious reasons, modern presidents do not compare themselves to him the way they do with Abraham Lincoln. But during his ...

Darwin Day, the annual celebration of Charles Darwin’s birthday, has become an international occasion each February, with activities around the world and across the U.S. that have featured scavenger ...

The calendar boasts plenty of religious holidays, but how many scientific holidays can you name? One of the red-letter days is coming up on Monday, when more than 850 events around the globe will mark ...

Angry, desperately sincere, perfectly aware that the overwhelming weight of opinion was against him, a distinguished 69-year-old zoologist glared at his colleagues, raised his voice, bounced up & down ...

If you’re in Greenwich Village on Friday and have some free time in the afternoon, come by to hear me give a talk during a conference at NYU called “Darwin and the Boundaries of Science.” Here’s the ...

Few scientists have been more tender, sympathetic parents than Charles Darwin, father of ten. But Darwin was a scientist first, a father afterward. From the moment his first child, William Erasmus ...

Sex is an expensive business, biologically speaking. Finding a suitable mate takes time and energy. Offspring are also a huge investment of resources. But sex does offer a rewarding possibility: ...