A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers ...

A Textbook Case of Anti-Science Feb 12, 2014 at 6:56 PM EST School children look at early-man skeleton fossils on display at the national museum in the capital, Nairobi, on October 18, 2013.

Science textbooks are born as clunky, out-of-date tomes the moment they roll off the printing press. Research simply moves too fast for the publishing industry to keep up. Digital texts could end ...

Busch took the high uncertainty text directly from an earth science textbook published in 2008 in California. For the other reading, she adapted the textbook language to remove uncertainty.

We only announced our plan for the textbook about a month ago, and 800 faculty members from colleges signed up the first day to get a demo. We’re working with those people.

Decades later, science textbooks have improved, but fundamental flaws still remain. Chiefly, they are products of politically stained standards that promote superficial, comprehensive coverage of ...

Texas Freedom Network’s rally before the state Board of Education meeting on science textbooks in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 17, 2013. Photo courtesy of Meg Seidel/Texas Freedom Network ...

Evolution's inclusion in science textbooks sparked significant debates at the state board in 2011. The board will discuss the books Tuesday and is scheduled to take a final vote Friday.

Textbook authors were told last month that some references to “climate change” must be removed from science books before they could be accepted for use in Florida’s public schools, according ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- A Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education on Friday rejected seven of 12 proposed science textbooks for eighth graders that for the first time will require them to ...