May 2013's selection of notable quotes
American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
In the midst of an ongoing debate over the role of the pesticides in the deaths of bees, the European Union will restrict their use for 2 years.
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
One of the surviving UK homes of pioneering but long-overlooked evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace is on the market.
A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.
Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.
Bees, the pollinators of a third of the world’s food crops, are in peril. And that’s about the only thing scientists, environmentalists, policy makers, and agro-industrialists can agree on.
Crowds flooded into a Washington, DC, park to protest NIH budget cuts and rally for greater investment in potentially life-saving biomedical research.