Includes updates and/or revisions. Louisiana’s state school board is gearing up for a debate next week over a set of proposed life-science textbooks, amid complaints that they don’t provide ...

Finding the origin of life on Earth has been a goal for scientists for decades. However, like anything, it's always based on theories and possible evidence, which can often change and evolve as we ...

A set of proposed life-science textbooks in Louisiana appears on track for adoption by the state’s school board, despite complaints that the materials don’t provide information questioning the theory ...

Everybody knows that science textbooks (or any textbooks, for that matter) are notorious for their high prices. Thus, it is always refreshing—and a bit exhilarating—to come across entire free texts.

Max Telford translated the technical effort behind studying evolution into a relatable story for every reader in The Tree of Life: Solving Science’s Greatest Puzzle.

Advanced science textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity, but a purported image showing the introductory sentences from one such work is downright gloomy: This chapter on ...

Turns out we might be very wrong about how life arose on Earth. For decades now, the prevailing scientific theory explaining the Precambrian Avalon explosion — in short, the era dating back to about ...