Science news articles about 'some like it hot'

... of the protein that allows you to sense the heat of a hot pepper. The report appears in the current issue ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chiliheads who savor the kick of hot peppers are sampling one of the earliest examples of chemical ...

... ― essential to all life in the ocean ― currently threatened by global warming. In times of stress like extreme hot spells, the female mushroom coral ... , though a part of the animal kingdom, can act like plants. Both are sedentary life forms ...

... activities at the points of the highest ecological value, like the hot spots where there's lots of biodiversity ... are near where people are, because people are more likely to want to pay for conservation if it's close to them ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using innovative thermal imaging techniques and CCTV recording, a St Andrews academic has shed new light on previously unseen aspects of the life of seals.

Coral reef fish can undergo a personality change in warmer water, according to an intriguing new study suggesting that climate change may make some species more aggressive. Experiments with two ...

... ' efforts to breed more of the California amphibians include refrigerating them to mimic their winter hibernation. Some like it hot. Apparently, the endangered mountain yellow ...

As anyone who has suffered from a cold or flu knows, a high temperature is an unpleasant but important side effect of the body's immune reaction when fighting off pathogens. Laboratory studies, in...

As anyone who has suffered from a cold or flu knows, a high temperature is an unpleasant but important side effect of the body's immune reaction when fighting off pathogens. Laboratory studies, in ...

With the help of new radiotelemetry technology, researchers have now succeeded, for the first time, in studying fever in a vertebrate species living in the wild, the North American song sparrow.

... and saliva; measure their waistlines and heart rates; sequence their DNA; and ask them questions like "How hot do you drink your tea?" Responding to the invasive-sounding request is voluntary ...

Few foods have a reputation for soothing stress quite like a hot cup of tea.

... fossils have been found documenting human evolution, has been a really hot place for a really long time, even ... of bipedalism and other human evolution, but now we have evidence that it was hot," Passey said. "Thus, we can say that the 'thermal hypothesis' is credible ...

... . In other words, caspases pass NO to XIAP like a 'hot potato.' This process occurs by a chemical ... to cell damage. To calculate which protein is more likely to end up with the NO 'hot potato,' caspases or XIAP ...

Researchers at JILA have demonstrated the use of infrared laser light to quickly and precisely heat the water in "nano bathtubs"—tiny sample containers—for microscopy studies of the biochemistry of ...