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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first-year introductory biology sequence provides a crucial foundation for students' careers. Some groups, such as first-generation college students (FGCS), lag behind their non-first-generation ...

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 ...