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What does ‘natural’ mean? Time to ditch a dangerous concept

The US regulator wants to define "natural" so it can decide which foods can use the label, but the word is also abused by Greens and fans of alternative medicine

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Humans

5000-year-old beer-brewing kit found in China

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Health

Can food get you high? We try a meal of psychoactive substances

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Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

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Health gurus, show us the evidence for your diet advice

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Health gurus, show us the evidence for your diet advice

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Health

Microbiomania: The truth behind the hype about our bodily bugs

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Synthetic wine made without grapes claims to mimic fine vintages

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The Hemsley effect: why we fall for celebrity food advice

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Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

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Recycled coffee grounds could make roads smoother and greener

Mixing coffee grounds with waste slag from the steel industry produces a material strong enough for use in road construction

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Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

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Nightmare FAQs: The 5 dream questions you were too afraid to ask

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Processed food bad, natural food good? We've got it so wrong

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