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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first-year introductory biology sequence provides a crucial foundation for students' careers. Some groups, such as first-generation college students (FGCS), lag behind their non-first-generation ...

At a school in the Czech Republic on October 20th, a groundbreaking experiment took place. Instead of pens and paper, students sat down with specially adapted VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2s) that ...