What scientific knowledge is and is not presumed in legal reasoning, and what are the differences between what is and what is ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other states today Dan Falk - Science Correspondent Teacher John T. Scopes (second ...

The 100th anniversary is approaching of the law under which John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted and convicted in Dayton, Tennessee, in the celebrated “monkey trial.” Enacted on March 21, 1925, 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.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the British naturalist? When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...