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Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's 11 lessons of war apply to scientific research, according to a biologist

A scientist defends his stimulus-funded project to preserve a large arthropod collection to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity

A previously unknown human ancestor may have coexisted with Neanderthals and early modern humans.

We don't do enough to prepare the growing number of scientists who opt out of bench work

An entomologist and author exposes some widely held insect myths

The author of a new book on behavioral evolution explains how primal urges overrun their original purpose

The author of a new book contravenes the myth that the public views scientists as geeks or villains

Institutional and government regulations are stifling the research "geese" that produce the scientific "golden eggs," one researcher says

A new movie about Charles Darwin's life and work struggles for distribution in the US, where many refuse to subscribe to the theory of evolution

She is just a few years out of school, and already Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri is head of the government’s first microarray lab, and helping the next wave of even younger scientists achieve the same success.

A new play explores the inner workings of the mind through the life of an autistic academic

Nobel Laureate uncovered the mechanism of reversible protein phosphorylation