In November 1859, the naturalist Charles Darwin was taking the ‘water cure’ in West Yorkshire and preparing to release his seminal work, On the Origin of Species. His voyage around the world ...

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.

A journey across southern Peru takes Stanley Stewart from the grand squares of Arequipa, through canyons where condors soar, ...

A competing theory of genius was advanced by an early statistician named Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton studied a set of ... tries to conjure a truly alien consciousness. A new ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Most coral reefs do not thrive in nutrient-poor “marine deserts” as once believed, but instead flourish in nutrient-rich ...

Yet the standard treatment paradigm remains largely unchanged. This is where Charles Darwin enters the oncology ward. Darwin's theory of evolution describes how life adapts over time through ...

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 ...