Dobson was comparing the pigment-filled packets, called melanosomes, inside the hair of several mammal species when her Ph.D. supervisor, Liliana D’Alba, noticed the platypus oddity. Typically, ...

As pet owners, we love our pets but hate their excessive shedding. Depending on the time of year, fur flies off at the gentlest of pats, and it manages to colonize underneath the couch and weave ...

The American political left as a cultural formation, and the Democratic Party as an institution, have sunk into a style of oppositionalism that contains no opposition. They speak in a vernacular of ...