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Evolution is great. As an explanatory idea, as a process governing biology, from just about any aspect you care to consider it,...

For a science teacher, perhaps the most dreaded question is "What Is Energy?" Sure, we have a standard answer - "The ability to do work"...

A mother elephant staggers forward, arrows protruding from her flank and legs, poison coursing through her blood that is attacking her...

To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information...

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair...

As the tide rolls out, a woman in a hardened bonnet and loose fitting clothes scrambles across the crumbling cliffs of Lyme Regis, a...

Forgetting is the horrible, beautiful necessity that keeps the past from swallowing the present but that, given too free a hand, picks...

Think back to your last zoo trip. More likely than not, most of the larger animals were contained in open air facilities, with features...

Biological classification took a while to figure itself out. For centuries, it was a mish-mash of Aristotelian sentiments and cabinets...

Four short decades ago, the prevailing wisdom among forestry officials was the “Free To Grow” model by which, when a forest was clear cut...

The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation,...

When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your...

In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics...

Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing...

Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of...

Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up...

In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of...

“There was a tunnel, and at the end a beautiful light, and I heard the voices of my family calling to me.” For centuries this, the...

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...

It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....