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- Sweet Confusion: Does high fructose corn syrup deserve such a bad rap?
- Closed Thinking: Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere
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- Major twister hits Oklahoma: Its speed, which largely determines the damage it causes, is still unknown
- Why a tornado forms: Tornadoes start with a thunderstorm. But they also require other ingredients, such as instability.
- A mind for math: A part of the brain associated with making memories may also predict success in learning math
Food Science
- Coffee is a significant, and previously unrecognized, source of dietary fiber.
- Researchers are looking into new ways to sanitize harvested produce and prevent foodborne pathogens from infecting people.
- Researchers have pinned down the class of natural compounds in grapefruit juice that's responsible for its unwanted chemical interaction with many drugs.
- Bagged spinach may contain a significant number of bacteria, many of which are resistant to several antibiotics.
- Cilantro, one of the key ingredients of salsa, harbors an antibacterial compound that attacks Salmonella bacteria.
- Green tea contains a broad range of compounds that detoxify dioxin.
- More and more people are eating at fast-food restaurants, and they down significantly more calories on the days they do.
- Workers who process animal carcasses into meat might soon use a novel type of laser scanner to identify products that have been contaminated with feces.
- The discovery of a new enzyme responsible for creating the tear-inducing chemicals found in onions may herald the arrival of genetically modified tearfree onions.
- The federal government approved food irradiation, the only technology known to kill an especially lethal strain of bacteria, for use on raw meats.
- X rays reveal how food processing shapes microscopic crystals of edible fats.
- Garlic supplements interact negatively with a protease inhibitor medication taken by people infected with HIV.
- A newly uncovered effect of a compound abundant in red wines may provide the mechanism needed to explain how reds could outperform whites and rosés in reducing heart disease.
- Magnetic resonance imaging can help determine the health of a wheel of cheese.
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