Food connects people everywhere. Sometimes the rules around it can get downright weird. Some of these laws started out with ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Get out your smallest violin—or maybe your biggest—for the petite frogs whose miniature ear structures hinder their ability to hop, one of the defining characteristics of frogs. The frogs are of the ...

Scientists found that the inner ears of tiny frogs in Brazil are perhaps too tiny. Too tiny to help these small frogs jump well. They are actually perfectly fine at jumping. But they are terrible at ...

Jim Smiley follows us around Jackass Hill like a slippery bandito about to pickpocket a gold prospector. I can’t shake the feeling that Smiley and his California red-legged long jumper Dan’l Webster ...

Our rulers think they have anesthetized those portions of the population they have not simply bought off. They might find that there is quite a lot of jump left in the frog yet.