Science news articles about 'chilli peppers'

... food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope. New research shows they are the ones responsible for the heat in chilli peppers...

Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chilli peppers, is most often experienced as an irritant, but it may also be used to reduce pain. A new work published by Drs. Feng Qin and Jing Yao in this week's ...

... can now not only feel the spicy kick of a jalapeno pepper, you can also see it in full 3D, thanks to ... the first three dimensional view of the protein that allows you to sense the heat of a hot pepper...

People with irritable bowel syndrome have a higher than usual number of chilli pepper pain receptors, according to a new study published tomorrow (Wednesday 11 June). The research, published in the ...

Chilli peppers can do more than just make you feel hot, reports a study in the 1 August Journal of Biological Chemistry; the active chemical in peppers can directly induce thermogenesis, the process ...

Thanks to salt and hot chilli peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing centre that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational ...

What was the number you were supposed to enter for the chilli pepper on the self-service scales? Was it 67 or 76? And the number for the bananas? The latest self-service scales automatically recognise ...