Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
A bill in the New York Senate would, if enacted, establish a climate change education grant program "to award grants to eligible applicants to support climate change education grant programs for young people or to provide optional teacher training or professional development programs relevant to…
My grandmother didn’t give anyone Christmas presents when President Obama was in office. She was convinced that his "socialist" policies were going to drain her bank account and that if she didn’t save every penny, she would be left with nothing to live on. One Thanksgiving, she stood up from her…
NCSE is pleased to congratulate John S. Mead, one of NCSE's Teacher Ambassadors, on receiving the National Association of Biology Teachers Evolution Education Award — sponsored by BSCS Science Learning and the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action — for 2019. BEACON's Louise S. Mead, a…
The National Association of Biology Teachers recently released a revised version of its position statement on teaching evolution.
Describing the teaching of evolution as "a necessary foundational framework for understanding our natural world" and "a necessary part of teaching biology in an…
In his essay "How Do We Know that Human Activities Have Affected Global Climate?" — posted on Sigma Xi's blog on November 11, 2019 — Ben Santer explains the scientific research that produced the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusion that "the balance of evidence suggests…
The eminent biochemist Russell Doolittle died on October 11, 2019, at the age of 88, according to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, which praised Doolittle as "a true pioneer in early gene science," adding, "He led the way to how it is used and…
NCSE is seeking to hire a part-time spring intern to assist our teacher support and community outreach programs. This is a unique opportunity for someone with a science background to learn about community organizing and science outreach. This is a temporary position based in Oakland, California,…
“I want to make it my hometown,” said an eight-year-old boy, quickly replacing water features with blocks and blocks of sand. We had been leading the outreach activity Cool Cities, focused on mitigating the heat island effect, at San Francisco’s Oracle Park for a couple of hours at that point, and…
“I had to do it. There was no ‘choice,’” Lacey Wieser explains about her decision last year to resign as Arizona’s Director of K–12 Science and STEM. The Arizona superintendent of public instruction, Diane Douglas, had just asked Wieser to strike references to evolution in a draft set of science…