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 ...

Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

In 1925, a small-town trial became a national spectacle, pitting faith against science. Here's what to know about the lasting legacy of the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial. Jock the monkey listens in on the ...

In a world conditioned by evolutionary advantage, Christians are called to welcome those who seem naturally selected for failure. A hundred years ago in Dayton, Tennessee, high school teacher John ...

One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

A group of Cornell University scientists have been outmaneuvered by a formidable (and genetically supercharged) adversary: the smallmouth bass of Little Moose Lake in New York State’s Adirondack ...

A new study confirms that dolphins and orcas have reached a "point of no return" in their evolution, making a return to land biologically impossible. Their specialized aquatic anatomy, developed over ...