Curry cure: Chillies are the hot new thing in medicine
Understanding why mint tastes cool and chilli is hot could bring new cures for chronic pain, obesity and even cancerIT STARTS out as a pleasant tingle, before growing into a burning sensation that...
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Fire ants accidentally introduced to North America from their native range in Argentina have been hugely invasive and difficult to eradicate and caused both environmental and economic damage. Recently,...
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Sensor backpacks for oysters say when they are happy
IN A pleasant spot on Tasmania's coast, Barilla Bay Oyster Farm has been growing and serving oysters for more than three decades.But are their oysters as healthy as they can be? The farm is about to...
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How computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia
Like all the best hoaxes, there was a serious point to be made. Three MIT graduate students wanted to expose how dodgy scientific conferences pestered researchers for papers, and accepted any old...
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74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza
One day last year, an engineer and I went to a pizza place for lunch. The engineer told me he wasn't very hungry, but he said he was going to get the 12" medium instead of the 8" small — because the...
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NASA Television
NASA Television’s channels NTV-1 (formerly the Public Channel) and NTV-3 (formerly the Media Channel) are now in high definition. NTV-2 (formerly the Education Channel) is a standard digital feed....
View ArticleScience.gov: Trivia
To continually challenge yourself, and learn more about science, follow Science.gov on Twitter @sciencegovQuestion: At what site managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office...
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Rescue from Antarctica | Alok Jha
The whirring twin rotor blades of the helicopter made so much noise that, once inside, it was impossible to hear anything else. Twelve of us, in full cold-weather gear, had picked our way carefully...
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Jazz Improvisers Appear To Use Language Brain Areas
Brain scans of musicians as they improvised in a musical dialog with another player showed that the improvisers used regions involved in syntax during production of language. Sophie Bushwick reports....
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Architecture May Influence Which Microbes Surround You - Wired Science
Different room types in this classroom building at the University of Oregon have different communities of resident bacteria. Autodesk, Inc. Different room types in this classroom building at the...
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What It’s Like to Be at the Bottom of the Ocean
You are in a metal sphere that is not much wider than your outstretched arms. It is uncomfortable, cramped and cold and there are no facilities. You can't hear any noise from the ocean, but you do hear...
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Chicken Butt — NewsWorks
Maiken Scott is a reporter for WHYY’s award-winning health and science desk, and covers behavioral health issues. She has reported on a wide range of topics in that field, including new treatments for...
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NASA | Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)
Get the latest GPM, TRMM, and ground validation news, and learn about Earth's weather and climate. The Global Precipitation Measurement Core (GPM) Observatory is scheduled to launch on Feb. 27 (EST)...
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Crowd-sourcing: Strength in numbers
At the end of January 2009, Timothy Gowers embarked on what he later called “one of the most exciting six weeks of my mathematical life”. Inspired by the online citizen-science movement, Gowers, a...
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CubeSats and Robotics on Station Thursday
[image-51]The deployment of miniature satellites from the International Space Station continued Thursday, while the onboard Expedition 38 crew prepared for the arrival of a U.S. commercial cargo craft...
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Modern Science Still Only Able To Predict One Upcoming Tetris Block
CAMBRIDGE, MA—During a press conference Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leading members of the scientific community confirmed that despite decades of research, the best available...
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Engineers Continue Pushing Orion Parachute System to Its Limits
[image-94][image-51][image-78]The parachute system designed for NASA’s Orion spacecraft passed another hurdle on Feb. 26, in a test that put extra stress on its drogue parachutes and simulated a...
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Scientist discovers bizarre new deep sea ecosystem, created by disaster
It makes me smile to think that, even after being lost at sea, a sunken ship can still be a symbol of hope. According to ongoing research, the death of an ocean vessel may also be the birth of whole...
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NASA | GPM Rocket Launch
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Badger culls were 'ineffective'
An independent scientific assessment of last year's pilot badger culls in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset has concluded that they were not effective.Analysis commissioned by the government found...
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