The science of dogs, told for curious readers: cognition and emotion, the senses, genetics and the long story of domestication — grounded in peer-reviewed research and explained without the jargon.
The 9 Percent: What Your Dog's Breed Actually Predicts
A landmark study of 18,000 dogs upended what we thought we knew about breed and behaviour. It turns out a label tells you surprisingly little about the dog in front of you.
The Look That Made Us Family
When your dog meets your eyes, a chemical loop fires in both brains — the same oxytocin system that bonds a mother to her newborn. The science of a glance explains thirty thousand years of alliance.
A World Written in Smell
A dog's nose isn't a better version of ours — it is an entirely different way of reading the world, one that turns a single sniff into a story of time, distance, and recent memory.
MelbourneThe Paralysis Tick Paradox: Why Australia Bred the World's Most Dangerous Tick
Ixodes holocyclus evolved in coastal eastern Australia to kill animals larger than itself by shutting down their nervous system. The toxin is unique, the mechanism is fiendish, and Australian vets have quietly become world leaders in treating it. Here is the science.