Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

In conversation with Mále Uribe, we set out to learn about the processes and ideas that work at the intersection of art, ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like ‘Sukunaarchaeum ...

The history of life on Earth is not a peaceful one. Rather than a constant upward trajectory of evolution, it’s been billions of ... Fortunian Diversification Event and a deeper evolutionary origin ...

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms. Strong reactions rippled across the United States. The eventual upshot: a ...

Nearly a decade earlier, Answers in Genesis opened a Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg, Kentucky, where exhibits similarly ...

Miracle year . Globally, 1971 was something of a banner year for research into the origin of life. In addition to Gánti’s underdog work, science put forward two other important theoretical models.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early ...

The bride is corseted and cosseted in her high-necked, hand-appliquéd Italian lace wedding dress on the grounds of an ...