How we taste sweetness: long-sought structure of human receptor mapped at last

Elie Dolgin • May 7, 2025

3D structure of the tongue’s sweet-sensing protein could guide future food designs.

Read at Nature.

Wolf waiting in shallow water with white birds in the background

A wolf raided a crab trap. Was it tool use or just canine cunning?

By Elie Dolgin • November 17, 2025
Scientists remain split on whether rope-pulling ingenuity counts as tool use.
Fossil of deer antlers

Toronto’s Subway Deer Enigma Unmasked With DNA Analysis

By Elie Dolgin • October 8, 2025
It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.