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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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3 .But if you want to kill them, you might try Truvia.
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4 .Because a new study shows that the active ingredient in this popular sweetener can act as an insecticide.
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5 .The study began as a sixth-grade science-fair project.
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6 .Eleven-year-old Simon Kaschock-Marenda noticed that his parents had stopped using sugar.
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7 .So he decided to see how different sweeteners affect the health of fruit flies.
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8 .He and his dad, a card-carrying biologist, offered the flies food spiked with a variety of no-cal sweeteners.
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9 .Six days into the experiment all the Truvia-fed flies were dead,
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10 .while those stuck with Sweet-n-low, Splenda or Equal lived five to seven weeks.
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11 .Why Truvia makes flies drop like flies is still a mystery.
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12 .Back in the lab, the researchers confirmed that the bugs weren't starving: they all continued to eat.
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13 .Most actually seemed to prefer Truvia to real sugar when offered a choice, findings published in the journal PLoS One.
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14 .Next, the researchers will see if the sweetener kills other bugs, like cockroaches or ants.
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15 .Until then, try tossing a little Truvia in your coffee, and on the counter.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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