curiosities

Why do medicines taste so bad?

According to a spokeswoman for a pharmaceutical laboratory, "it is a good question, but not all drugs taste bad. It is subjective, it depends...

Expensive gives us more pleasure

The higher the price of a product, the more pleasant the sensation it causes in the regions of the brain linked to pleasure, according to an article published today in the journal PNAS.

How does a carnivorous plant bite?

The biting plants can close their trap in as little as a tenth of a second and exert a force comparable to that of a bear trap.

Is there life under the ice?

There are places on the planet, such as the frozen caverns of ice located hundreds of meters deep inside the earth, where it seems impossible that there are living beings.

Pale, red-haired Neanderthals

Redheads and fair skin. This is how some of the Neanderthals who cohabited Eurasia with our ancestors were, according to a study published today in Science and based on ancient DNA extracted from the Asturian caves of Sidrón and the Italian Monti Lessini site.

Why are there bubbles in a glass of water even though it is not moving?

The appearance of air bubbles in a glass of water does not depend on whether or not it is at rest, but on how...

Where does pastel blue come from?

Pastel Blue is extracted from a plant with yellow flowers called Pastel I Satisfactory, whose qualities were discovered in the 16th century in the Midi-Pyrinées region of France. Cultivated in Albi, Toulouse and Carcassonne, this herb made it possible to dye fabrics a deep and indelible blue color.

Do the deaf dance?

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, more than 70 million people in the world are deaf.

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