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food science

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Health

Good hydrations: Is fruit juice better than soda?

Fizzy pop is just candy in a can, and diet alternatives are full of nasties. Pure 100% fruit juice is best – or so we’re led to believe

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Health

Good hydrations: Does milk make healthy brains and bones?

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Health

Good hydrations: Do I need eight glasses of water a day?

Features

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Humans

Subway chicken row shows faith in food is still a battleground

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Your skull is an amazing physics lab

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Humans

Old Scientist: Our best jokes ever (laughter not guaranteed)

Regulars

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways?

Features

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Are there really just three dimensions?

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quantum weirdness

Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Could quantum weirdness be even weirder?

Features

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Earth

A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO2, mainly from fertiliser

Fertiliser use accounts for 40 per cent of greenhouse gases emitted to make bread, and bread production accounts for half a per cent of all UK emissions

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Health

You should be eating 10 pieces of fruit or veg every day, not 5

News

Physics

Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality

Features

Health

Junk food tax and veg subsidies could add 500,000 years of life

News

Technology

AI learns to solve quantum state of many particles at once

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