Coriander's polarizing taste stems from a genetic variation in smell receptors, particularly sensitivity to aldehydes that can trigger a soapy percept ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

Whole genome sequencing in nearly 500,000 UK Biobank participants shows that observed rare and common variants now explain ...

Neanderthals, our extinct relatives, were known for their notably larger jaws compared to modern humans. This distinct trait ...

As the global population grows, producing enough food for everyone has become one of the biggest challenges in agriculture.

The huge range of dog breeds that exists today is often thought of as a modern phenomenon, but new research suggests this ...

Recent analysis has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins of canine diversity, revealing that dogs were already ...

While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new study – based on tracing 50,000 years of canid skull evolution – ...