This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Time for a nap — Brainy people get to dream a little more than not-quite-so-brainy people, correlationally speaking, if their brains and genomes accord with the findings of researchers from the University of the Republic in Uruguay, University […]
The secret of why onions make people cry; the scientist who ate and excreted a shrew; the one-armed man who was arrested for applauding; the question of when cows lie down and stand up; and surgical management of an epidemic of penile amputations in Siam; and a cat unexpectedly taking over the podcast — all these all […]
Chemistry research that led to an Ig Nobel Prize has now led to an onion that does not cause tears, reportedly. The Wall Street Journal‘s JapanRealtime blog reports: No Crying in the Kitchen: Japan Firm Engineers Tear-Less Onions House Foods Group Inc. knows its onions. The Japanese food maker, whose researchers have been studying the chemistry of onions for […]
Details about the only scientific study ever to have focussed on negative multiple charged onions. That particular focus came in the form of a typo: “… the atomic stabilization of negative multiple charged onions in linearly polarized super-intense high-frequency laser field in 3-dimensional space using both frequency independent and dependent potentials.“ – recently published by […]