All Stories by Nick Bascom
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- Life
Walking may have had wet start
Based on the way that primitive lungfish use their fins to move along tank bottoms, researchers argue for an underwater start to four-legged locomotion.
- Health & Medicine
Presidency not a death sentence
For occupants of the Oval Office, wealth, status and quality medical care more than compensate for any life-shortening effects of stress.
- Earth
Polar ice sheets are synchronized swimmers
Glaciers in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres advance and retreat together.
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- Humans
Two feet or four, software is the same
All walking animals use the same basic nerve patterns to put one leg in front of the other(s).
- Life
Two steps to primate social living
Evolutionary shifts about 52 million and 16 million years ago led to the group structures observed today, researchers argue.
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- Life
Axing molecular zombies may slow aging
Killing off dormant cells slows the decline of mice genetically engineered to grow old fast.
- Life
Giant dinosaurs may have migrated
Evidence in teeth suggests that sauropods sought greener pastures in dry North American summers.
- Life
Cycads not ‘living fossils’
Though ancient, today’s representatives of the plant group date back to a common ancestor that lived not all that long ago.
- Humans
Plague bug not so fierce after all
DNA analysis shows bacterium was fairly ordinary but thrived in pestilent conditions of medieval Europe.
