Researchers from four universities, including Michigan State University plant biologists Marjorie Weber and Ash Zemenick, participated in a study to explore a potential demographic mismatch in ...

Newswise — The teaching of science has long generated controversy in the United States—from evolution in the early 20th century to climate change today. Debates have also often emerged around how ...

In 1925, Tennessee v. Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, captured the attention of the nation. Millions of Americans tuned their radios to listen to the trial of John T. Scopes, a ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. With every year that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the climate ...

Undergraduate biology textbooks do little to teach students how science can contribute to successful careers in industry or improved business practices at a time when some fear that science is under ...

It's hard to believe that scientists are still making discoveries inside the human body while also visualizing what a manned mission to Mars might look like, but that's exactly what's happening. For ...

A study of how biology textbooks in the US instruct students about sex and gender finds that these concepts are frequently described in ways that are at odds with scientific research. The teaching of ...

The textbooks used in about 66% of U.S. classrooms teach outdated ideas about the differences between sex and gender, a new study published in the journal Science from the American Association for the ...

The teaching of science has long generated controversy in the United States—from evolution in the early 20th century to climate change today. Debates have also often emerged around how textbooks teach ...

With every year that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the climate crisis deepens — as does the threat it poses to life on Earth. But that increasing urgency isn’t reflected in many of the ...