Untreated tooth decay is Earth’s most common health condition. A biologist explains how farming, sugar and oral bacteria made ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

Note: This article is a summary of a casual conversation with the AI assistant 'Muse,' compiled by Muse itself. The author's ...

A 380 million year old fossil from Ellesmere Island known as tiktaalik is a focal point in a new study challenging previously held assumptions as to why tetrapods developed necks. CBC's Liam Baker has ...

Cellulite affects up to 90% of women but few men. Here’s the connective-tissue structure behind it and why evolution built ...

Scientists have discovered that spiders may sleep in ways surprisingly similar to humans, complete with distinct sleep stages ...

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

One problem is that there's no consensus about what a gene even is. "'Gene' is one of those words in biology that means different things in different corners of the field," Ågren says. And whether ...

Real-time chemical analysis reveals how the corpse flower releases pungent scents to attract insect pollinators, helping ...

How and when did cells gain the ability to crawl? Live imaging of cells from close relatives of early eukaryotes fills in a ...

Over the past 30 years, Swiss barn owls have become more reddish-brown and more heavily spotted. By analyzing the genomes of more than 3,000 birds, scientists at the University of Lausanne identified ...

In the insect world, bigger bodies usually come with bigger body parts. But some ants break this rule in an unexpected way. A massive soldier ant, equipped with an oversized head and powerful jaws, ...