News tagged with bitter taste


Helping the medicine go down

Helping the medicine go down

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Getting little Doug and Debbie to take a spoonful of medicine is more than just a rite of passage for frustrated parents. Children's refusal to swallow liquid medication — and their tendency to vomit it back ...





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Bling bling with your ring ring: Dekoden craze sees cell phones get a touch of glitz, glamour

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell phone owners are ringing the changes and putting a smile on their dial by adorning their mobiles with ornamental stickers, charms and beads -- and the craze just keeps getting bigger.


Obama to plead US case at global warming summit (AP)

Obama to plead US case at global warming summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade - despite resistance in Congress over higher costs - when he travels to a ...


Beer Here

Biology / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beer is a simple act, but making beer is not. It starts out with genetics and tens of thousands of barley varieties and ends with a clear ambrosia that belies the time, effort and technology that ...


Autism treatment: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed on an intense regimen of supplements and medications ...


Got a pain? -- Have a cup of Brazilian mint

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For thousands of years it has been prescribed by traditional healers in Brazil to treat a range of ailments from headaches and stomach pain to fever and flu.


Probing life's extremes in Yellowstone

Probing life's extremes in Yellowstone (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory biologist Frank Roberto squats on a bare, gravelly patch of ground in Yellowstone National Park's rolling backcountry. At his feet, scalding water churns in a mustard-yellow ...


Probing Question: What is a heritage turkey?

Probing Question: What is a heritage turkey?

Biology / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over 45 million turkeys are eaten by Americans each Thanksgiving, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hunters provide some -- last autumn, about 24,000 wild turkeys were harvested ...


Let them eat snail

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nu ...


Black Friday: On your mark, get set, go!

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most Americans, Thanksgiving Day means a flurry of food, family and football. But the real frenzy begins the day after, say researchers at the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University.


Cancers' sweet tooth may be weakness

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The pedal-to-the-metal signals driving the growth of several types of cancer cells lead to a common switch governing the use of glucose, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered.



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