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Chemistry World
November 22, 2013
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Earliest use of chilli sauce put back hundreds of years Chemical analysis of 2000 year old pottery artifacts unearthed in southern Mexico suggests that the people living there were spicing up their diet with chilli sauce and drinking chilli flavored beverages, almost a thousand years earlier than previously thought.   |
Chemistry World
December 12, 2012
David Bradley |
Cracking old cheese please, Gromit New evidence and chemical research suggests that early farmers made cheese to allow them to cope with the lactose found in raw milk. These farmers may have lacked the enzymes to digest to breakdown the sugar, so would have been lactose intolerant. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2007
Victoria Gill |
Chemistry Reveals Oldest Known Chocolate Drink Chemical analysis of pottery fragments from bottles found in Honduras has uncovered an ancient, alcoholic chocolate drink. The finding has pushed back the earliest use of cacao more than 500 years, to between 1100 and 1400 BC. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2011
Andy Extance |
Dirty Pots Reveal Ancient Fish Suppers 6000-year old cooking pot recovered from a Danish bog still holds traces of the last supper it held. |
Science News
July 28, 2007 |
Science Safari: Bee All Here's a site to learn more about the important role honeybees play in plant health and agriculture. |
National Gardening
Marla Spivak |
Keeping Honeybees A beehive in the garden ensures a good seed crop and fresh honey for the table |
Wired
May 22, 2007
Greta Lorge |
Can a Tiny Microphone Save the Bees -- and the Food Supply? An entomologist at the University of Montana, has decided to wire this hive because he believes it's in the early stages of "colony collapse disorder," a syndrome that has caused the deaths of billions of bees nationwide -- and baffled scientists. |
National Gardening
Amy Bartlett Wright |
The Other Pollinators Many fascinating creatures do the essential work of transporting pollen. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2007
Michael Gross |
Deadly Beetles Intercept Bee's Warnings The small hive beetle invades colonies of the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) but not of the African strain. Researchers in the US have now found that the bee's very own chemical alarm signal plays an important role in the beetle's success. |
