Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a ...

A Spitfire is to fly over North Staffordshire this weekend. It will fly over Audley Cricket Club between 1.47pm and 2.17pm on Sunday, July 13.

This is called a Mesoscale Convective Vortex, or MCV. And what's key about this MCV developing where it did is that there was nothing else in the weather pattern around Texas to move it.

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools. The trial highlighted tensions ...

Catholic Reponses to Scopes 100 Years Ago On the whole, Catholics in 1925 had little problem with the teaching of evolution.

High school teacher John Scopes (center), in 1925 became the first person charged for violating a Tennessee law making it illegal for anyone in a state-supported school to teach theories of evolution.

One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the concept of parental rights continues to fuel curriculum battles – from book bans to LGBTQ+ censorship – in school boards and state legislatures ...

On July 21, 1925 — a century ago today — substitute teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a state ban on teaching evolution in schools.

Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local ...

In the end, the Scopes Trial and its cast of colorful characters is the story of the power of narratives to shape public perception.