The Wire recently highlighted evolutionary psychologist Jesse Bering's explanation at Slate of a claim that women have evolved to defend themselves against rape, given the disastrous toll rape ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. I have watched the ongoing debate about evolution with increasing disgust. When did it become OK ...

Long-simmering ideological objections to teaching evolution in Texas boiled over at a late-night meeting, as the Board of Education extended preliminary approval of new science textbooks but held up ...

Now more than ever, science needs defending, so thank God for Bill Nye, who’ll take time out of his busy Science Guy schedule to publicly debate Ken Ham, founder of Kentucky’s Creation museum, on the ...