James Shapiro goes after natural selection again (twice) on HuffPo

Oklahoma high school valedictorian denied diploma for using 'hell' in speech

Teachers, scientists and policymakers have drafted ambitious new education standards. All 50 states should adopt them

Delhi Charter School: Stop Discriminating Against Pregnant Students!

The group representing parents in Victorian state schools has joined teachers in calling for controversial religious instruction classes to be scrapped during school hours.

There were at least 185 documented attacks on schools and hospitals in Afghanistan last year, according to the United Nations. The majority were attributed to armed groups opposed to girls' education.

There’s something fascinating about our chromosomes. We have 23 pairs. Chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest living relatives, have 24. If you come to these facts cold, you might think this represented an existential crisis for evolutionary biologists.

The human genome contains about 100,000 fragments of endogenous retroviruses, making up about eight percent of all our DNA

The first goal of the project, known as the Open Tree of Life, is to publish a draft by August 2013. For their raw material, the scientists will grab tens of thousands of evolutionary trees that are archived online. They will then graft the smaller trees into a single big one.

A Hot Young Earth: My Answer to the
Annual Edge Question

A British family with a bizarre speech deficit 
has led linguists to FOXP2: a gene that begins to 
explain how our ancestors acquired language.