Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: biological clock

biological clock stories: 4 news summaries

 To Beat Jet Lag, 
 Skip Airline Food 

Fasting can help reset your internal clock, study says

May 23, 08 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jet lag can be beaten—if passengers avoid airline food, new research suggests. The timing of meals has a profound effect on the body's internal rhythms, and passengers who go without for a while—keeping the body's "food-related clock" in check—can dodge much of the exhausting effects of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
jet lag • time zones • airline food • biological clock • internal clock • long haul flights • Clifford Saper • fasting

Test Counts 'Good Eggs'
to Track Fertility

Offers $350 check-up
of biological clock; some docs skeptical

Apr 24, 08 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women wondering how much time is left on their biological clocks have a new option, the Chicago Tribune reports. A new test called Plan Ahead, on the market for $350, claims to measure how many high-quality eggs a woman has remaining and thus some indication of childbearing potential. But some... More »

MORE ABOUT:
fertility • women's health • reproduction • children • fertility treatment • biological clock

 Mariah Carey: No Babies for Me 

Having a child would make diva feel 'violated'

Apr 23, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mariah Carey may be nearing her 40th birthday but the singer isn't worried about her biological clock, reports the New York Daily News. That's because she has no plans to have kids—in fact, she'd "feel violated' by having a baby. "I know that's a weird thing to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
music • motherhood • celebrity • singer • biological clock • Mariah Carey

55M Monarchs Can't Be Wrong

Internal clock of 1-ounce butterfly
sheds light on
human sense of time

Feb 11, 08 4:58 PM CST
(Newser) - The 1-ounce monarch butterfly may have a thing or two to teach us: Each year, some 55 million monarchs make a 4,000-mile multigenerational journey from Canada to Mexico, returning to the same forest, often the same tree, without relying on GPS. How? The insects rely on a unique internal... More »

MORE ABOUT:
migration • genes • insects • monarch butterflies • butterflies • biological clock

4 Stories


from our news partners