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3 Easy Steps To Making Beer The Scientific Way

3 Easy Steps To Making Beer The Scientific Way

Apr 17 2015 | comment(s)

Karin Heineman, Inside Science TV –  Beer! Most Americans choose it over all other alcoholic beverages.

It's also one of the world's oldest beverages. In fact the first evidence of beer production dates back to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in the fifth millennium BC. People have been brewing beer for a very long time, even before anyone really understood what turns its ingredients into alcohol.

Detecting Toxic Drugs Faster

Detecting Toxic Drugs Faster

Mar 30 2015 | comment(s)

By Ben Stein, Inside Science - Testing whether a drug is safe and effective usually takes many years and millions of dollars. Now, researchers have discovered a surprisingly simple method that could quickly and inexpensively weed out many toxic drugs early in the testing process. The test simply explores how much a drug alters a cell's outer covering, or membrane.

Synthetic Cannabinoids - Please Don't Call It Fake Weed

Synthetic Cannabinoids - Please Don't Call It Fake Weed

Mar 21 2015 | comment(s)


By Benjamin Plackett, Inside Science

There is an ongoing competition of bureaucratic one-upmanship between the U.S. government and renegade pharmacists. The government is playing defense. When they ban a variation of a drug, pharmacists then quickly create a newly formulated and therefore legal variation.

No, You Can't Catch A Photon Simultaneously Behaving As A Pure Particle And Wave

No, You Can't Catch A Photon Simultaneously Behaving As A Pure Particle And Wave

Mar 20 2015 | comment(s)

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How Do You Win A March Madness Bracket? Guess

How Do You Win A March Madness Bracket? Guess

Mar 19 2015 | comment(s)


By Chris Gorski Inside Science Currents Blog -- It's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament time and fans have lots of questions. Will Kentucky win it all and finish the season undefeated? Will one of the "First Four" – the teams that begin tournament play on Tuesday night – become a Cinderella story during this year's March Madness games? What's the best selection method for a pool-winning bracket?

Global Warming Could Cause 50% More Lightning

Global Warming Could Cause 50% More Lightning

Mar 10 2015 | comment(s)

By Karin Heineman, (Inside Science TV)

Every day around the world, lightning strikes the ground about 10 times per second. That's nearly one million strikes a day!

In the U.S. there are 20 million strikes on average every year, and now David Romps, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California Berkeley, says we can expect to see that number grow in the coming years.

“What we find by looking in the climate models is that on average they’re predicting a 50 percent increase in the amount of lightning that you get in the United States, during this century, the 21st century," said Romps.

And the cause?