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Chocolate: the sweet taste of...chemistry?
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The key to really good chocolate is not any single ingredient—it’s chemistry.
Plasma: the liquid gold running through our veins
Topic
It’s not all about the red stuff
What’s in your swimming pool?
Topic
The less-than-comforting truth about what lies under the surface of swimming pools
Shedding light on sunscreens
Topic
What's in your trusty bottle of SPF 50+?
What is a balanced diet, anyway?
Topic
The science of a balanced diet goes far beyond the latest fad.
Accounting for taste
Topic
How does our sense of taste work?
Brain games: how athletes' minds work
Topic
Elite athletes don't just jump higher and run faster—they think differently, too.
Turning off the baby shower: the future of male contraceptives
Topic
When it comes to contraception for men, why are there so few options?
Zombies!
Topic
What kinds of zombies exist in the world? If an outbreak happened, would we be doomed?
Gut bacteria: the inside story
Topic
Trillions of tiny organisms—microbes—are all over, and inside, each of our bodies.
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