News tagged with peppers
Warner music videos returning to YouTube
Sep 29, 2009 |
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YouTube on Tuesday announced a deal to bring Warner Music Group songs back to the world's most popular online video sharing service.
Chili peppers help to unravel the mechanism of pain
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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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 Bi ...
Research Team Finds Evidence Cacao Ritually Used in Chaco Canyon
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Study: Public Perceptions and the Salmonella Outbreak of 2008
Jan 29, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Parasite-resistant peppers green alternatives to chemical pesticides
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Nov 12, 2008 |
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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 ...
New hybrid plants could prompt more prodigious pepper production in Southwest
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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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.
Bugs put the heat in chili peppers
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Aug 11, 2008 |
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If you're a fan of habañero 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 ...
Hot peppers really do bring the heat
Aug 06, 2008 |
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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 ...
