John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.

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The famed naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin is, of course, best known for his works on evolution—specifically On the ...

Artificial intelligence has transformed how we work, communicate, and solve problems. From language models that write essays ...

This is a big deal. Trail camera captures rare footage of elusive creature named after Charles Darwin — here are the details ...

When you examine the lives of history's most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organized their lives around their work, but not their days. Figures as different ...

Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was ...

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Our expert historian and columnist surveys the historical field and picks a shelf’s work of books that every intelligent ...