by Shawn Radcliffe | Sep 18, 2013 | Fitness, Health, Medicine
A new study finds that a healthy habits like diet, more exercise, and stress reduction are linked to longer telomeres, the protective caps on chromosomes that indicate the age of the body’s cells. Simple lifestyle changes—like eating right, exercising more, and...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Mar 6, 2013 | Science
A well-preserved 33,000-year-old dog skull recovered from a cave in the mountains of southern Siberia is more closely related to modern dogs than to wolves. This finding, from an international team led by a Russian researcher, backs up a study from last year that...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Apr 16, 2012 | Science
The discovery of a new species of leopard tree frog in New York City is hardly surprising (see “A New Species in New York Was Croaking in Plain Sight,” New York Times 13 March 2012). We are taught as children that nature is something “out...