Can biology teach us anything about how to survive in the business world? On March 17 an essay appeared on the Scientific American Web site making the case that “Biological systems offer valuable ...

Novel perspectives emerge from a recent conference on the origins of eukaryotic cells, which covered phylogenetics, population genetics and evolutionary consequences of energy requirements and ...

The Amgen Foundation has announced a three-year, $3 million grant to develop comprehensive biology lessons at the Khan Academy — a nonprofit dedicated to providing free online education. With the ...

Conservation biology is considered by some to be a “crisis discipline.” Decisions within the field must often be made quickly, sometimes without enough time to gather all of the data one would ideally ...

Business leaders are often fascinated by military tactics, and with understandable reason: They see themselves as waging battle against challenging incumbents and evading minefields in the marketplace ...

The Texas state school board has just wrapped up a long, difficult battle over how to present biology in its public school textbooks. But a new one may be brewing in the state, one focused on taxpayer ...

A news twinkle from the science desk embargoed for later today... Mixed Signals will have details then, but here's the tease: Butterflies in Latin America are teaching biologists a surprising lesson ...