Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Let me start the New Year with a confession: I hate interpreting phylogeny in informal science. You would too if you had experienced all my spectacular failures. I’ve tried morphological observation of extant taxa, only for participants to become fixated on “skull color” or the fact that a…
NCSE is seeking to hire a Social Media Producer to assist the Director of Communications in managing NCSE's social media campaigns. Responsibilities include developing, executing, tracking, and analyzing campaigns. This is a part-time contract position; work can be done remotely. Further…
House Bill 1635, prefiled in the New Hampshire House of Representatives on December 11, 2019, and referred to the House Committee on Education, would, if enacted, require climate education in the state's public schools, including a focus on anthropogenic climate change specifically. At the high…
At its heart, education is a communicative process. As such, science and environmental educators serve as important and trusted messengers about some of society’s grandest challenges like climate change. Research has much to offer about how to best approach climate change communication, but that…
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education—volume 40, number 1—is now available online.
Featured are Ann Reid's interview with Naomi Oreskes, a member of NCSE's board of directors, about her new book Why Trust Science?…
“All that work and only 15 calories!” The exasperation in the 10-year-old’s voice is amplified by the walls of the two-and-a-half-meter-long intestinal tract she’s been crawling through. “That’s like three jelly beans,” one of our interpreters shouts meekly into the tube, unsure to which adult her…
Why Trust Science? Is the latest book by Naomi Oreskes, an NCSE board member, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, and author of other notable books including Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global…
When the Idaho legislature adjourned sine die on March 28, 2018, a three-year-long struggle over the treatment of climate change in the state's new science standards ended, with a generally favorable outcome, as NCSE previously reported. Now, however, it appears that the legislative attack on…
Seven in 10 Americans think that global warming is happening, and six in 10 think that, if it is happening, it is mostly owing to human activity, but only about one in five know that nearly all climate scientists agree that global warming is happening as a result of human activity. Those were among…