News tagged with hot peppers

Russian-born billionaire buys Warner Music

Russian-American billionaire Len Blavatnik's Access Industries won a bidding war on Friday for Warner Music Group, buying the storied music company for $3.3 billion in an all-cash transaction.

Technology / Business

created May 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

U of M licenses unique plant protection product

Adapting a chemical used to deliver medicines through the skin, University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) scientist Tom Levar has developed a way to protect plants from browsing by deer and mice by delivering a natural hot pepper ...

Biology / Other

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Salsa and guacamole increasingly important causes of foodborne disease

Nearly 1 out of every 25 restaurant-associated foodborne outbreaks with identified food sources between 1998 and 2008 can be traced back to contaminated salsa or guacamole, more than double the rate during the previous decade, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Peppers may increase energy expenditure in people trying to lose weight

Imagine your delight while enjoying your favorite Mexican food - perhaps a fully loaded bean burrito topped with an ample supply of thinly sliced jalepeno peppers. What happens when you bite into a few more peppers than you ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Warner music videos returning to YouTube

YouTube on Tuesday announced a deal to bring Warner Music Group songs back to the world's most popular online video sharing service.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Does hotter mean healthier?

Phytophthora blight, caused by Phytophthora capsici, is a major plant disease that affects many crop species worldwide, including chile peppers in New Mexico. Farmers' observations suggested that Phytophthora capsici c ...

Biology /

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research Team Finds Evidence Cacao Ritually Used in Chaco Canyon

(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 ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0