Can biology teach us anything about how to survive in the business world? On March 17 an essay appeared on the Scientific American Web site making the case that “Biological systems offer valuable ...

THIS MUST BE Genetic Disorders Month in Kelsey’s biology class. I know the teacher is trying to explain how genes and chromosomes work, but every day my 16-year-old comes home with a new, often fatal, ...

The Amgen Foundation has announced a three-year, $3 million grant to develop comprehensive biology lessons at the Khan Academy — a nonprofit dedicated to providing free online education. With the ...

A middle school science teacher in Minnesota reportedly claimed that biology cell lessons are steeped with “capitalist indoctrination.” The teacher, Mandi Jung, works at Highland Park Middle School in ...

Novel perspectives emerge from a recent conference on the origins of eukaryotic cells, which covered phylogenetics, population genetics and evolutionary consequences of energy requirements and ...

Universities are charged with developing the next generation for a future we can’t predict. Here are three lessons from evolutionary biology to make sense of a changing world – and three skills the ...

A news twinkle from the science desk embargoed for later today... Mixed Signals will have details then, but here's the tease: Butterflies in Latin America are teaching biologists a surprising lesson ...