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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.
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+?
Blood types: the not so bleeding obvious
Topic
There are many more blood types than the eight most of us are familiar with.
Venom: the painful truth
Topic
Venom is a complex chemical cocktail with much to teach us.
Accounting for taste
Topic
How does our sense of taste work?
How our memory develops
Topic
As our brain develops in infancy and early childhood, so does our capacity to remember.
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?
Quirks of evolution
Topic
Why hasn’t evolution weeded out all the weird accidents and leftovers on plants and animals?
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