Author: Caran Sheppard

As many of you know from personal experience a little alcohol during some winter activity gives a nice sensation of warmth, as blood vessels on the skin’s surface open.  Actually, alcohol doesn’t help raise the body’s temperature and it sure doesn’t help us breathe in an oxygen deprived environment.  Yet somehow goldfish and their wild relatives, crucian carp, can survive for up to months at a time, at the bottom of ice-covered ponds in water deprived of oxygen.  Scientists at the Universities of Oslo and Liverpool have found the secret behind the goldfish’s remarkable ability to survive these harsh frozen...

Taking the family for a summer drive and stopping to have ice cream is a great way to spend time together.  One of the downsides of ice cream cones is you had to eat them fast or they dripped all over the place.  For those that like to savor each lick or bite there is an interesting new ice cream invention that says sayonara to melting, based on an accidental discovery that is really catching on in Japan. It all started when the Biotherapy Development Research Center of Kanazawa, Japan asked a pastry chef to come up with a strawberry dessert using polyphenol, a...