Scientists have uncovered an unexpected function for a crucial protein involved in cell division. Reported in two consecutive publications, the finding challenges long-accepted models and standard ...

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 ...

DALLAS, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Texas Board of Education Friday approved high school biology textbooks that teach evolution, after months of wrangling about how Darwin's theory should be presented in the ...

A majority of the state's school board recommended Tuesday that Louisiana adopt new high school biology textbooks, rejecting complaints from Christian conservatives that the books are too accepting of ...

Climate change may represent a crisis, but that isn’t how college biology textbooks depict it, according to a new study. The amount of textbook real estate devoted to climate change has continually ...

Basic biology textbooks may need a bit of revising now that biologists have discovered a never-before-noticed component of our basic genetic material. Basic biology textbooks may need a bit of ...

Only 22 states and Washington, D.C., require comprehensive sex education, and only 13 of those require the information is medically accurate. One Arizona school district is taking its statewide ...

Charles Darwin. Carolus Linnaeus. Gregor Mendel. They’re all men. They’re all white. And their names appear in every biology book included in a new analysis of college textbooks. According to the ...

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 ...