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Drinking too much alcohol can give anyone a terrible hangover. But some people get sick after just a single glass of red wine, with symptoms ranging from an itchy rash and a wheezing cough to a pounding migraine. What makes wine so different? There’s no easy answer: A handful of substances in wine, particularly red wine, can wreck havoc on the unlucky people whose bodies can’t handle them. Here are the likely culprits behind your red wine woes, according to your symptoms....

It’s easy to explain the first: Crust absorbs moisture from inside the loaf. Potato chips, which absorb moisture from the air, are all crust, so they completely soften. Crumb staling is more complicated. Over the years, food scientists have published hundreds of papers on the subject. Many have come to believe the process has to do with starch within the gluten structure. “Starch granules exude amylose during baking,” says Bill Atwell, professor of grain science at the University of Minne­sota....

At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, paleontologists used to free large fossils like sabertooth jaws and mammoth shoulders by melting the asphalt with heated kerosene. In the process, they burned microfossils: small remains such as a mouse’s toe bone, seeds, or lizard vertebrae. Scientists once viewed them as unimportant, but microfossils tell us more about ice-age Los Angeles than bigger bones do because many larger animals were migratory visitors, while smaller organisms were locals....

To create a core 40 percent lighter and 30 percent stronger than traditional hardwood, Wagner engineers pressure-soak soft, light East Coast timber in a epoxy resin derived from paper mill waste. When hardened, the resin turns the wood into a plasticized block. A double helix of carbon fiber woven around the core adds even more lateral (i.e., turning) strength. The resulting skis are so light they could offer relief from hip-and-knee-straining hardwood models, and so versatile they could replace stacks of skis in lodges and garages....

Tropical Storm Henri, which forecasters think could develop into a hurricane on Saturday, has sustained winds of nearly 70 mph, with occasional stronger gusts. It’s expected to reach hurricane strength as it hits land in southern New England. That would make it a rare event, even in the current era of longer, more intense hurricane seasons. “If Henri strikes southeast New England as a hurricane this weekend, it will be the first direct hurricane landfall since Bob in 1991,” Chris Vaccaro, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman, told NPR....

The D3000 is a 98-foot-long, stealthy robotic trimaran warship designed to operate autonomously for months. Notably, this system—which appears to be tagged for export—is being offered by the China Aerospace and Science Technology Corporation, a Chinese defense contractor whose primary strength is in missiles and other aerospace technologies. (It’s the company that’s building the T Flight, China’s answer to the Hyperloop.) CASC notes that the D3000 can either operate by itself, or as part of a larger task force with manned ships....

For many of us here in the US, an annual hunting or fishing trip to Canada is a longstanding tradition. And Canadians, particularly those in the more remote western provinces, depend on American tourism dollars to bolster local economies. But the US-Canada border has been closed since March and will remain so until at least July 21. There is also a 14-day quarantine rule in place that will stay in effect until Aug....

An international group of collaborators analyzed 72 genomes of ancient wolves from Europe, Siberia, and North America and compared them with modern wolves, as well as modern and ancient dogs. They determined that dogs are overall more genetically similar to ancient wolves from eastern Eurasia than those from western Eurasia. Additionally, the researchers found that ancient wolf populations remained closely related throughout much of the last 100,000 years and identified several mutations that may have helped the species weather the Ice Age....

Much like Periscope’s last update, which saw streams embed directly into tweets, GoPro streaming is only available on iOS devices for now. But it will eventually be coming to Android users as well. In order to use the new capability, simply update to the latest version of Periscope on iOS and link it to your GoPro. Once linked, you’ll be able to select your GoPro as a camera option. The partnership, announced today, has come at a time when Twitter, which owns Periscope, could use a major boost of good press and user engagement....

This week, the American College of Physicians (ACP) updated their screening guidelines to recommend that people with an average risk for breast cancer (meaning those who don’t have a personal or family history of breast cancer, dense breasts, or genes that increase risk) should have mammograms every other year starting at age 50. Between 40 and 49, they should discuss the risks and benefits of the screening procedure with a physician....

A new study out this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine demonstrates that while we absolutely need vitamins (we would literally die without some of them), taking them in pill form doesn’t seem to work. To figure that out, the study’s researchers used data from a massive long-term research project called NHANES, which tracks Americans’ diets and health and had relevant information on 27,725 people. Of those, just over half took some kind of supplement and more than one third took a multivitamin specifically....

We live in an age of thermal protectors “Modern kitchen appliances have thermal protectors inside,” says Ken Kutchek, an electrical engineer and forensics investigator for Robson Forensic. “It’s a small cylinder on the inside of the device and it trips itself on heat. Grandma’s slow cooker probably doesn’t have one.” These small devices—sometimes called thermal cutoffs—work like fuses. When the sensor reaches a certain temperature, it stops the flow of electricity through the circuit....

A nearly complete skeleton of Mbiresaurus raathi was discovered after five years, COVID-19 related delays, and extremely careful digging. Mbiresaurus lived along the banks of an ancient river in current day Zimbabwe, during the late Triassic period (about 252 million to 201 million years ago). The long-necked ancient lizard is a sauropodomorph, a relative of giant long-necked sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus. They were smaller than their late Jurassic to early Cretaceous counterparts, at about 6 feet long and 1....

You can also get the 75-inch model for $1,648. If you want a large screen but don’t have a need for a bunch of fancy features, Vizio’s E-Series E70-F3 measures 70 inches and costs $798. The 70-inch screen can be controlled with your voice assistants, has both Google Chromecast and Vizio’s SmartCase OS, and a beautiful 4K HD picture. There are fewer local dimming zones—this set has 12 compared to the P65-F1’s 100—so the contrast won’t be as good on this set....

But what we do have in abundance are those quirky little inventions that make life just that tiny bit easier: affordable cell phones, GPS systems, high-speed internet, debit cards, frost-free freezers, budget airlines and longer-lasting batteries to name a few. And then there are the inventions that never really took off. The difficulty of predicting the future is that those predictions are often based on present technology. When Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” in 1863, he envisioned the Paris of 1960 filled with glass sky-scrapers, high-speed trains, petrol-fuelled cars and even a worldwide “telegraphic” communications network....

Let’s face it, we all would prefer to spend our hard-earned cash on gas money and great food, so we’ve come up with a list of items that can make your riding experience a little better for under $40. We’ve included some of our favorite backup plans for hauling stuff on our bikes as well as some items like battery chargers and tank bags that are surprisingly inexpensive. A tire pressure gauge is one of the most important tools you can keep around....

This latest update carries over a lot of the same customization options you can find in Windows 10, but it also includes some interesting new extras. For example, you can have the Start menu pop up in the center of the screen instead of the left, where it’s been since the earliest editions of the OS. What’s more, there are already third-party programs that can change the appearance and functionality of Windows 11....

Google’s word processor might seem like a simple tool, but Docs is actually full of useful features that will make your writing experience better and more efficient. The company usually makes announcements when big updates are on the horizon, but some functionalities inevitably fly under the radar for a lot of users. Luckily for you, we found some you might have missed. Note that both of these trend tabs display only numbers, not names, so if you were thinking about using this feature to call out your coworkers on something, that’s not going to work....