The legacy of the Scopes trial lies not in the victory of one worldview over another but in the ongoing, often contentious, conversation about science, faith, education, and national identity we’re ...

Dayton, Tennessee, business leaders in 1925 recognized that a hot-button trial could put their small town on the map. They recruited teacher John Thomas Scopes to challenge the state's Butler Act ...

For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it every year.

The U.S. Army is arming soldiers with AI-powered SMASH scopes to shoot down drones using smart targeting and precision fire on standard M4A1 rifles.

Winning Scopes emboldened anti-evolutionists, leading to more court battles Following the trial, several states in the South passed their own anti-evolution laws.

The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic conflicts in America's ...

What occurred a century ago this month in the courtroom of the Rhea County Courthouse refuses to be forgotten. The utterance of a name — Scopes — is a reminder of those two torrid weeks in ...

1 in 4 Americans reject evolution a century after the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial spotlighted the culture conflict 6 hours, 14 minutes ago by William Trollinger and Susan Trollinger ...

The Scopes trial cast a long shadow over American life. The jury may have taken only nine minutes to determine the fate of John Thomas Scopes, but the issues at stake in Dayton are still contested ...

The US Army is giving its soldiers a high-tech edge in the fight against drones.

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.