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Education Commissioner Henry Mack pushed back Tuesday against criticism that Florida is de-emphasizing evolution in its new plan for teaching science, insisting the state is still covering a subject ...

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A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals that the diversity of nonribosomal peptides, a class of compounds ...

Eight Myotis genomes connect unusual immune adaptations with DNA repair, cell death and dramatic differences in lifespan.

An eloquent analysis of the origins of human speech suggests that social cohesion, not conflict, drove our use of words.

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People with higher intelligence scores tend to have slightly smaller families in American and British surveys. But when ...

A critical review of 135 foundational texts argues that urban design theory has advanced through four crisis-driven paradigm shifts and now requires theoretical complementarity rather than a single ...