Larger animals do get more cancer than smaller ones, overturning the 45-year-old “Peto’s paradox” which suggested no link between animal size and cancer risk Species that evolved larger body sizes ...

Let's face it: Vintage Christmas was just better. Whether it's because of the nostalgia, the unabashed kitschiness, or the flagrant disregard for flammability, decorations from the past were cozy, ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

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A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute ...

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

There's something dangerously adorable about a dog toy that also looks like it belongs on a bookshelf next to a candle. Target's three-dollar tree plush is one of those toys you buy for your dog but ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Phylogenetics is the attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships between species. Historically, this was done using quantitative morphological data, but modern methods rely more heavily on ...

The best artificial Christmas trees dazzle your home without the cleanup and maintenance required of a real tree. They also offer features no live tree can offer: the ability to re-use your tree year ...