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Orange juice follies

10 May 2017

The orange juice market is huge. Ā Unfortunately some processors try to cut corners by extending the juice with sugar, pulpwash and water. Ā But the ruse can be detected by some clever science. ...

Mixing meat and milk

10 May 2017

The Old Testament offers up some dietary advice about not mixing milk and meat. Milk provides a hospitable environment for bacteria on meat to multiply, so this does make sense. Religious...

Monks and Beer

10 May 2017

In the Middle Ages much of beer brewing was carried out by monks. Water is a source of many disease causing organisms which cannot survive in alcohol. Trial and error demonstrated that beer...

Why do we itch?

10 May 2017

The sensation of itching used to be thought of as a sort of low-grade pain response, which was detected by the same nerves responsible for finding bodily injuries. Recent research, however, has...

Do dead batteries really bounce?

10 May 2017

Youā€™ve probably heard of the bounce test for dead batteries- simply drop a battery, and if it bounces, itā€™s dead. It turns out that this isnā€™t completely true. Conventional batteries have an outer...

ā€œMild Cold Trainingā€ & Weight Loss

10 May 2017

Researchers from the University of Maastricht have proposed a new solution for the obesity epidemic. Instead of changing lifestyle habits or restricting calories, Dutch researchers suggest ā€œmild...

Therapeutic touch

10 May 2017

Dolores Krieger, a nurse, is the mother of Therapeutic Touch. She claims that humans are surrounded by energy fields which become disturbed when they are ill and can be massaged back into place by...

Bourgeonal Odour

10 May 2017

Bourgeonal is an aromatic aldehyde used in perfumery with a fragrance resembling that of the Lily of the Valley.Ā  Whatā€™s so special about this fragrance? It is secreted by the ovum within the...

Purple Tomatoes

10 May 2017

Are you ready for purple ketchup? What about purple pizzas? Scientists in Britain have recently developed a new type of genetically modified tomato enriched with anthocyanin, the pigment also found...

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