In the July 19 Comment, Dudley Herschbach, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, discusses how to infuse scientific ideas into humanities education with an aim of increasing overall scientific literacy. Herschbach is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Science & the Public.

A detailed inventory of toads in Florida finds that, as land becomes more agricultural, more cane toads resemble females both inside and out.

A popular weed killer can feminize wildlife by tinkering with a gene that indirectly affects the production of sex hormones.

Thanks to global warming, within the lifetimes of certain reptiles in the South Pacific, all members of their species could be born male.

Gas prices may need to climb more before most of us do the right thing.

Astronomers have found big benefits from recruiting the public to lend their eyes and image-processing prowess

A controversial interpretation of passages from the Odyssey suggests that Homer knew much more about planetary motions than historians thought possible.