A food writer learns there may be a scientific reason behind his lifelong cucumber aversion. Even chefs and food writers can have strong aversions to certain foods. Cucumber aversion may have a ...

Jyoti Vakhlu [email protected] From laws of inheritance to the molecule of heredity – a journey of scientific ...

"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to ...

Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working ...

Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria and viruses, microscopic ...

For decades on end, Sri Lanka has stood as a global beacon of public health success. Our nation’s commitment to comprehensive ...

Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Scientists have found that human hair growth does not grow by being pushed out of the root; it's actually pulled upward by a force associated with a hidden network of moving cells. The findings ...

Evidence from Newgrange suggests ancient Ireland was more egalitarian than once believed, with no clear signs of a ruling ...

Music lovers are going to miss Mirage this festive season. In fact, they were not in town for the festive season last year, too. And the reason for their absence is because the folks at Seychelles ...

Scientists capture first detailed look inside droplet-like structures of compacted DNA Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into ...