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- Do cells in the blood, heart and lungs smell the food we eat?
- Communicating the science of the '6x°C egg'
- Schoolboy finds 300 million year old fossil
- First tests of old patent medicine remedies from a museum collection
- Ready for debut: Fruit-juice-infused chocolate with 50 percent less fat
- First trial to investigate magic mushrooms as a treatment for depression delayed by UK and EU regulations
| Do cells in the blood, heart and lungs smell the food we eat? Posted: 07 Apr 2013 03:35 PM PDT In a discovery suggesting that odors may have a far more important role in life than previously believed, scientists have found that heart, blood, lung and other cells in the body have the same receptors for sensing odors that exist in the nose. It opens the door to questions about whether the heart, for instance, "smells" that fresh-brewed cup of coffee or cinnamon bun.  |
| Communicating the science of the '6x°C egg' Posted: 07 Apr 2013 03:35 PM PDT Why does the "65-degree egg" and its "6X°C" counterparts continue to entice chefs and diners at chic restaurants, when the science underpinning that supposed recipe for perfection in boiling an egg is flawed? It all boils down to the need for greater society-wide understanding of basic scientific concepts, an expert says.  |
| Schoolboy finds 300 million year old fossil Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:58 AM PDT A schoolboy has discovered what appears to be an extremely rare fossil of footprints from more than 300 million years ago.  |
| First tests of old patent medicine remedies from a museum collection Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:29 AM PDT What was in Dr. F. G. Johnson's French Female Pills and other scientifically untested elixirs, nostrums and other quack cures that were the only medicines available to sick people during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries?  |
| Ready for debut: Fruit-juice-infused chocolate with 50 percent less fat Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:29 AM PDT Already renowned as a healthy treat when enjoyed in moderation, chocolate could become even more salubrious if manufacturers embraced new technology for making "fruit-juice-infused chocolate," a scientist says.  |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2013 06:08 AM PDT The world's first clinical trial to explore the use of the hallucinogenic ingredient in magic mushrooms to treat depression is being delayed due to the UK and EU rules on the use of illegal drugs in research.  |
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