Creationism

The federal licenses for the Diablo Canyon plant, near San Luis Obispo, are valid for at least another decade, but opponents were citing seismic and tsunami-related concerns even before last week's magnitude 9.0 quake off the coast of northern Japan

Hydrogen and steam explosions pose ongoing risks at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, where three such events have already occurred in the past five days

The type of accident occurring now in Japan derives from a loss of off-site AC power and then a subsequent failure of emergency power on-site. Engineers there are racing to restore AC power to prevent a core meltdown

Education experts suggest that in some cultural contexts one way to encourage acceptance of evolution is by not shunning religious beliefs

Interactive map highlights recent battlegrounds in evolution education

Darwin may have won in Kitzmiller v. Dover, but five years later has evolution education evolved? A biology teacher who testified in the Dover trial talks about what she faces in the classroom every day, and why teachers need to be prepared

An important indicator species in the fossil record, ammonites played a major ecological role in their day, so figuring out what--and how--they ate should lead to a bounty of new knowledge about the ancient ocean

Researchers are developing cameras that can take digital snapshots made up of more than a billion pixels

The battle for eternity is fought on Larry King Live

The biggest roadblock for the commercialization of solar power in the United States is not the technology but the mundane back-end issues of permitting and installation

Achieving greater efficiency and control requires hooking almost every aspect of the electricity grid up to the Internet, making it more vulnerable to cyber attacks

All the world's power plants, vehicles and factories that presently exist may not emit enough carbon dioxide to cause catastrophic climate change