The key to understanding bone health is understanding minerals. The primary mineral in your skeleton is calcium, but bones do not live on calcium alone. Drop a piece of chalk (calcium carbonate) and it will easily shatter. No one wants an all-calcium skeleton. Although calcium supplements are the most common strategy for maintaining strong bones,…

Archaeologists have unearthed an intact chicken egg dating back to the Byzantine period, roughly 1,000 years old. During the excavation of an ancient cesspit in the city of Yavne, part of a large-scale archeological undertaking by the Israel Land Authority, researchers were astonished to find the fully intact egg. The sight was located in an…

At 3 feet 6 inches tall, a woman from Canada who has broken close to 100 bones in her lifetime—and who cannot walk and uses a wheelchair full time—is living a content life. She is a wife, aunt, advocate, speech-language pathologist, and enthusiastic world traveler. Meet Kristin Victoria from Ontario who, along with her soulmate…