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“#Consumers can distinguish between bitter tastes in beer—doesn’t alter liking” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Although most beer consumers can distinguish between different bitter tastes in beer, this does not appear to influence which beer they like. It seems they just like beer, regardless of the source of the bitterness. That is the conclusion of Penn…
“#Bayer says to pay $10 bn to settle Roundup cancer claims” German chemical giant Bayer on Wednesday said it has agreed to pay over $10 billion (9 billion euros) in a mass settlement with American plaintiffs who say their cancers were caused by the Roundup weedkiller made by its Monsanto unit. “The main feature is…
“#Plastics markets adapt in the age of COVID-19” 3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19–in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with…
“#When COVID-19 quarantines ancestral Andean rituals” Apu Ausangate. A reduced number of participants were authorized to hike up to the glacier on June 7. Credit: Stefanos Nikologianis In Cusco, the old capital of the Inca Empire located in the Peruvian Andes, June is a month of celebration. Although Catholicism is the majority religion in Peru,…
“#US Senate committee aims to regulate UFO information” In December 2017, the Pentagon acknowledged funding a secret multi-million dollar program to investigate sightings of UFOs, although it said it had ended in 2012 The US Senate intelligence committee is aiming to regulate a Pentagon UFO program so that the public is better informed of its…
“#US judge bars California cancer warning on Roundup” A US judge ruled that placing a cancer warning on Roundup is not “purely factuel and uncontroversial” A US judge permanently barred California from placing a cancer warning on Bayer’s Roundup, handing a victory to the German company as it battles litigation over the product. The case…
“#Survey studies effects of COVID-19 pandemic on life scientists” Some numbers from the performed survey, summarized in an info-graphics. Credit: EMBL Jan Korbel and Oliver Stegle, both group leaders at EMBL Heidelberg, have performed a survey of fellow life scientists in Germany, Spain, the UK, Italy, France, Canada, Turkey, and the USA to learn how…
“#Video: How tear gas affects your body” Credit: The American Chemical Society 2-Chlorobenzalmalononitrile, better known as CS gas, is one of the most common tear gases used in the United States today, but did you know it’s not actually a gas? We break down how it works, a bit of its history and the best…
“#Leonardo’s ‘quick eye’ may be key to Mona Lisa’s magnetism” Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ remains the most famous painting in the world and is housed at the Louvre in Paris Scientists believe Leonardo da Vinci’s super-fast eye may have helped him catch the enigmatic magic of Mona Lisa’s smile. This superhuman trait, which top…
“#Violin-makers tune in to tradition of Stradivarius in Italy’s Cremona” Cremona, birthplace of Stradivarius, is today a veritable laboratory for luthiers from all over the world, and violin making workshops are everywhere Working in the shadow of the great masters, the violin-makers of Italy’s Cremona are valiantly fighting a shrinking market and foreign competition as…