Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
NCSE bids farewell to Robert Luhn, who joined NCSE as its first Director of Communication in 2008. Bringing his decades of expertise as a technology and environmental journalist to the job, Luhn was instrumental in raising NCSE's profile among traditional and new media and in connecting…
NCSE was featured in Climate Fwd: — The New York Times's e-newsletter "with stories and insights about climate change" — for February 21, 2018: "climate change is presented as a controversial subject in a significant number of American classrooms, according to research from the National…
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Michael E. Mann on his selection to receive the 2018 Public Engagement with Science Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in recognition of his "tireless efforts to communicate the science of climate change to the media, public[,] and…
Connecticut's governor Dannel P. Malloy declared February 12, 2018, Charles Darwin Day in the state of Connecticut, citing the need to protect "the advancement of science and courageous free inquiry." The declaration describes Darwin as developing "the groundbreaking theory of evolution by…
In a new exciting venture with several partners, I have come to greatly appreciate the many science-based resources for teachers housed at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).NOAA is a trusted source of accurate and useful data. When you think of NOAA, your first…
The opportunity to directly engage with people in Iowa about climate change and evolution just got a whole lot easier with a $270,000 three-year grant from the Carver Charitable Trust.The great success of the Science Booster Club Program and the new grant are strong testaments to the power of…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Peter S. Ungar's Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins (Princeton University Press, 2017). The preview consists of the introduction, which explains, "We hold in our mouths the legacy of our evolution," and chapter 6, "…
Public opinion about climate change was reviewed in the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators (PDF) 2018."Americans are divided on the severity and cause of climate change but concern has returned to previous highs," the report summarized, citing:More than 6 in 10…
Public opinion about evolution was reviewed in the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators (PDF) 2018.In the 2016 General Social Survey, respondents were asked whether "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals" was true or false;…