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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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antenna size from both head and body size as they develop into different social castes, ...

Pregnant people's "baby bumps" weren't always broadcast to the public eye. Figures—fiction and nonfiction—are working to ...

Evolutionary biologist Paul Hebert revolutionized biodiversity research with DNA barcoding, inspiring a global effort to ...

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 ...

Professor Guillaume Chomicki from our Department of Biosciences has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for ...