When it comes to chile peppers, how hot is hot? Visitors to Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture, open for just one more month, can see a chart ranking varieties of peppers by their level of Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a score created in 1912 by Detroit chemist Wilbur Scoville.
chiles are found in everything from chocolate to beer
The human mouth can sense at least five tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami (savory). Find out more—and join us for tastings of seasonal foods—in the exhibition kitchen.
children because they are bitter or spicy, like coffee, beer
With four weeks of fieldwork behind us, our team had become a fine-tuned machine.
specimens were processed, we celebrated with a round of beers
Gravitational waves, explained.
And these are the beer chambers, as they’re sometimes
During the winter, the sea ice off Antarctica covers an area so big that it’s actually the largest continuous habitat on Earth. The algae that live there produce 25 percent of all oxygen on the pla…
cores make the ice look like the color of frosty root beer
Are we ready for the future of A.I.?
and we just become buddies with them and go drink beer
Physicists consider evidence for faster-than-light neutrinos.
of minutes doing that, and then we’ll get into our beer
Over 500 years ago, the Inca built a city high in the Andes mountains called Huanuco Pampa (wa-nu-koh pam-pa).
, the state held huge festivals and gave gifts of beer
Solving evolutionary puzzles by discovering new species.
First thing we usually do is a have a beer with a local
Mummification was practiced by numerous cultures in what is now Peru, beginning more than 7,000 years ago.
Weinstein Thousand-year-old vessels for chicha, a beer
