Science news articles about 'hot chili peppers'

Capsaicin, the active ingredient in spicy hot chili peppers such as the jalapeno, is most often experienced as an irritant, but it may also be used to reduce pain. New research uses capsaicin to ...

... outside stimuli and the nerve cell.” The outside stimulus used in this study was the heat of a chili pepper. It has been known for years that the burning sensation results from the action of a ...

How can some people eat pepper after pepper without pain? Have they destroyed the sensory receptors in their mouths and throats?

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