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Banana-y bread and onion beer: How yeast can trick our tastebuds
Maker of beer, bread and wine, yeast is our biggest microbial friend. Now we're engineering weird new flavours with it - even lager that tastes of something
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Health
VR headset helps people who are legally blind see again
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Environment
People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result
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Environment
The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you?
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Humans
Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you
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Environment
How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads
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Humans
A fifth of people hear sounds when watching silent GIFs. Do you?
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Humans
The Strange Order of Things: How we feel our way to being human
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Environment
Dirty talk: How pollution is snuffing out plants’ scent messages
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Humans
Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours
Most people are much better at identifying colours than smells, but one group of hunter-gatherers from the Malay Peninsula shows the opposite pattern
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It’s never too late to get a tattoo, an implant 鈥� or new senses
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Physics
Painter, painter of the wall, what’s the fairest colour of all?
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Health
One-off CRISPR treatment slows genetic hearing loss in mice
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Humans
Why a female fly will ruin your drink, but a male is fine
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