Male Moth's Sperm Protects Females
...e quick to find out that the moth isinedible. One taste of the chemical-laden moth is enough to make a spi...temptation is not safe to eat, a spider must first taste the moth. Sniffing isnot enough, because the moth's defensive chemical is not very volatile -- ause...Where the wild ones are: origins of staple crop found
...cassava tubers, then trying them again, the bitter taste was lessened. Schaal says the diversity of the plant is remarkable. "There must be thousands of different varieties. In Brazil, every little village has its own varieties. There are bitter ones, sweet ones, even ones used as baby food." Schaal says......nt decay of the algae can resultin foul odors, bad taste in drinking water and low dissolved oxygen in aquatic habitats -- oxygen that is necessary for fish and other aquatic life to survive....Even in the Amazon jungles, treatment for heat exhaustion is the same as it is right here at home
...lebit of salt in it, suggests Dr. Hardy. It should taste slightly salty. THE SYMPTOMS OF HEAT EXHAUSTION AND HEADSTROKE Watch for the symptoms of heat exhaustion: The skin may become cool, moist, paleor flushed, accompanied by heavy sweating, headache, nausea or vomiting. You maybecome dizzy and exhauste......fat substitutes inchocolate ice cream affected the taste of chocolate ice cream. (See page 66,AGFD 97, 11 a.m., Wednesday, August 25, Convention Center, Room 210.)...Mosquito fish may be wiping out amphibians
... But Kats suspected that the fish also have a taste for other delicacies.In 1996, he showed that they eat the larvae of the California newt (Tarichatorosa), but critics said the studies revealed little, as the newts were theonly food on offer. So Kats and his colleague Jeff Goodsell tested whe...Worms will never taste the same: a new study examines how insecticides influence birds
...This avoidance of toxic prey, known as conditioned taste aversion (CTA), beganafter the blackbirds were exposed to the contaminated worms for only one day.The birds were exposed to extremely low levels of parathion, levels too low toinduce obvious illness. This suggests the possibility of a widespread,und...Clemson researchers link federal flood insurance program to accelerated coastal development
... the surf, the lure of thewarm seas breezes or the taste of fresh seafood. According to researchers atthe Strom Thurmond Institute at Clemson University, the land rush on the coastbegan in 1972, when South Carolina adopted the federal flood insurance program. Researcher Jeffery Allen, director of ...Futurist research highlights chemists' national meeting March 26-30 in San Francisco
...ogram include: Chemistry of Taste - how taste develops chemically in the mouth and makes one food favored over another; food chemists' use of the electronic nose and electronic tongue, new tools to advance the science oftaste. ...Smell, taste may influence lifespan of the roundworm C. elegans
...eive its environment - presumably through smell or taste -- increases itslifespan by more than a third. In...theenvironment, perhaps pheromones or the smell or taste of something in their food, influence thenematode's rate of aging, probably by acting on a hormone s...Link between taste and temperature focus of 'thermal taste,' a new discovery by Yale scientists
...rature can result in the same salty, sweet or sour taste caused by sugars, acids or other chemicals, a Yale..., just as certain chemicals can evoke only certain taste qualities," said Barry G. Green, principal investigator on the study, which will appear in the Febru...Could fish clean up sewage works?
...minants such as pesticides and heavy metals. "They taste excellent," he says. If the water does contain heavy metals, however, the fish would have to be treated as toxic waste and disposed of by burning or burial in landfills. Specialists in water treatment say space and the low rate of removal are the...Bitter taste receptors identified
...genes that encode proteins that function as bitter taste receptors. The research, which is reported in tw...des important insight into the organization of the taste system. "We've been trying for the past four years to understand how the taste system works, focusi...Discovery of taste receptors may make bitter a bygone taste
... that. Scientists have discovered a new family of taste receptors (T2Rs) that may comprise as many as 80 d...ociated with poisons, so broad recognition of this taste perception can be critical to an animal's survival. Now that the molecular structure of these recep...News briefing: The chemistry of taste: Stalking the 'sweet tooth' gene; taste changes as you age
...erence for sweet foods. Another study examines how taste perception changes as people age, which may result...al Senses Center, Philadelphia Genetics of sweet taste and the "sweet tooth" Susan Schiffman Duke University, Durham, N.C. The aging palate: Chemistry of...Beetle uses fecal defense against predators
...e function of the thatch, the biologists devised a taste test for two kinds of potential predators, coccinellid beetle larvae and pentatomid bugs, which are commonly called stink bugs. H. cyanea larvae with their thatch shields intact were uniformly ignored. "They did not attempt to bite the thatch, or to...Nerve protein shown crucial to sensations of pain from heat, injury
...ogress has been made in understanding thesenses of taste and smell and sight at the molecular level, the molecules thatunderlie the perception of pain are just now being studied. "This is just a beginning," says Julius, "but it identifies one of the basicfactors involved in the signaling of pain in a norma...Tobacco smoke flavoring contains hazardous chemicals
...are found in tobacco additives used to enhance the taste of cigarette smoke. Until now, no one knew how much of the compounds entered cigarette smoke, according to lead author David Ashley, Ph.D., at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The researchers used a new detection method...Researchers develop tastier low-fat cheddar
... appear to degrade or destroy substances that your taste buds find less savory. For example, bitterness, a common off-flavor in reduced-fat cheese, was eliminated by using cultures with specific enzymes - ones that either don't release the bitter substances at all or break them down. "The industry has str...Scientists map first structure in important family of proteins
...e receptors found in the tongue -- responsible for taste -- and in the nose -- responsible for detecting odors. Other GPCRs are involved in the regulation of the heartbeat. They are even found in the brain, in the opiate receptors that bind someone to a life of drug addiction. In other words, GPCRs partici...