On Monday, the Tennessee state legislature passed legislation that requires public schools to teach the “controversy” over evolution, global warming, and human cloning.

Is Richard Dawkins an ape?

Science book delayed when someone
notices it's written by creationists

75 Nobel laureate scientists call for repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act

In a disturbing trend, anti-evolution campaigners are combining with climate change deniers to undermine public education

"Governments do not have the authority to say what marriage is or to change its nature or to decree that people of the same sex can marry."

Physicists have confirmed the ultimate speed limit for the packets of light called photons - making time travel even less likely than thought.

"The fact that I have had thousands of messages from around the world speaks for itself about the impact and the way people feel," he said.

A Jewish rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a stray dog it feared was the reincarnation of a lawyer who insulted its judges, reports say.