http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. YouTube on Tuesday announced a deal to bring Warner Music Group songs back to the world's most popular online video sharing service. http://www.physorg.com/news173421515.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:10:01 EST news173421515 Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers, is most often experienced as an irritant, but it may also be used to reduce pain. A new work published by Drs. Feng Qin and Jing Yao in this week's PLoS Biology uses capsaicin to uncover novel insight into how pain-receptor systems can adapt to painful stimuli. Sensory systems are well known to adapt to prevailing stimuli. For example, adaptation happens when your eyes adjust from a dark movie theater during a matinee to the bright sunlight outside. Whether pain receptors truly adapt or rescale their responses (versus simply desensitizing) has been an open question. http://www.physorg.com/news154680380.html Biology Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:47:34 EST news154680380 (PhysOrg.com) -- Inhabitants of Chaco Canyon apparently drank chocolate from cylinders like these about a thousand years ago. That`s the finding in a paper published this week by PNAS, a publication of the National Academy of Science and written by Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia L. Crown and her Collaborator at the Hershey Center of Health and Nutrition W. Jeffrey Hurst. http://www.physorg.com/news152818667.html Other Sciences Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:38:20 EST news152818667 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI) have investigated public perceptions of the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, the largest foodborne illness outbreak in the United States in over a decade. http://www.physorg.com/news152464793.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:20:52 EST news152464793 Root-knot nematodes are extreme parasites. These microscopic, omnipresent worms cause major damage to horticultural and field crops in sub-tropical regions, resulting in significant financial losses to growers and gardeners. http://www.physorg.com/news145715393.html Biology Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:29:53 EST news145715393 By themselves or as an ingredient in a variety of foods, including salsa, America's top-selling condiment, peppers have found a warm spot in the hearts and stomachs of U.S. consumers. http://www.physorg.com/news144951210.html Biology Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:13:30 EST news144951210 If you're a fan of habaņero salsa or like to order Thai food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope. New research shows they are the ones responsible for the heat in chili peppers. http://www.physorg.com/news137692330.html Biology Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:52:10 EST news137692330 Chili peppers can do more than just make you feel hot, reports a study in the August 1 Journal of Biological Chemistry; the active chemical in peppers can directly induce thermogenesis, the process by which cells convert energy into heat. http://www.physorg.com/news137246135.html Chemistry Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:55:35 EST news137246135