Are you excited that Christmas is almost with us? I must confess that Christmas dinner is one of my favourite meals of the year. I love the turkey, the cranberry sauce and the Brussels sprouts.

A biologist studies blind cavefish, a species of fish that dwell in cave ponds in Mexico. He looked at the timeline for when the cavefish develop additional taste buds on the head and chin, finding ...

In eastern Mexico’s underground caverns and streams, a blind fish undergoes a peculiar adolescence: as it approaches maturity, taste buds begin to sprout under its chin and on top of its head, ...