Science

BBC News story: Caffeine 'may cure skin cancer' Caffeine could one day be used to cure skin cancer, scientists believe.  Researchers in the United States have found that caffeine combined with an extract from green tea can kill the disease in mice.  They have discovered that rubbing both

Found an update on the February 2019 asteroid at the BBC News site.  Asteroid to miss - this time around has some less happy news though. Astronomers have ruled out an Earth impact from asteroid 2002 NT7 on 1 February 2019 - but they say, as yet, future collisions have

Today is 3/14/02.  Today is Pi day.  Pi is 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 and then a whole pile of other numbers on the end, which are as useful in practical terms as a chocolate teapot.

According to "The World of Caffeine" (Weinberg and Bealer) Spain was the first European country to drink chocolate, nuns in Mexican cloisters were the first Europeans to make hard chocolate, probably learning it from the locals.  Until the French Revolution, chocolate drinks were seen as a convenient way

Reading The World of Caffeine by Weinberg and Bealer, coffee seems to have mysteriously escaped notice until the 1500's, despite a reference to it in A.D. 1000.  Weirder still, it seems to have been unknown to the Arabs until after they heard of tea, which was grown