Spicy foods contain a chemical called capsaicin, which activates a receptor found in your mouth and on your tongue called a TRPV1 receptor. There is some variation in the sensitivity of these...
When you spend hours proofreading and retyping essays, you get to wondering- why do聽we refer to large letters as upper case, and small as lower case? It鈥檚 actually a remnant聽of a past where...
There are some cool products on the market right now that claim to conduct sound through the bones in your face or head, allowing the wearer to hear music or phone calls, but not allowing others to...
Why is chicken breast white and dark meat dark? 聽It all has to do with different kinds of muscle. 聽Dark meat is a result of the predominant presence of slow oxidative muscle fibres used for...
Ever snap off a dandelion head and see the white liquid seeping out from the stem? It turns out that fluid isn鈥檛 sap or poison, but a defense mechanism, in the form of latex! The Lithuanian word...
Despite what movies would have you think, rats barely ever聽make any sounds, at least those that humans are able to hear. Rat鈥檚 vocalizations start at around 2 kHz and extend as far up as 100 kHz....
