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The unexpected science of everyday things
Science is a mirror that reveals sometimes hidden, often unexpected and always astounding insights into everyday things and human life. Here we explore everything you always wanted to know about holidays, food, art, music, books, games, TV, film, education, urban life and crime — as well as human history, archaeology and anthropology.
An interview with baker and onetime chemical engineer Melissa Weller.
Analysis of dental plaque more than 3,000 years old reveals traces of proteins from bananas, soybeans and turmeric.
Masks may make communication even more difficult for those with hearing loss or who face language barriers.
Optimally cutting lots of complex shapes from a sheet of dough is even harder than many researchers suspected.
Psychologists say 2020's stream of bad news has probably hurt the mental health of people who follow it closely.
Celebrating the Indigenous people of the Americas who revolutionized what the world eats.
New courses could help prepare young doctors for the medical challenges of a warming world.
The hair-filled balls were discovered in a 3,000-year-old cemetery in northwestern China.
The new Nobel Prize for hepatitis C follows Blumberg's 1976 Nobel for hepatitis B. Both discoveries helped make blood transfusions safe.
While groups have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the science prizes have been limited to three individuals per prize per year.
The research that won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has saved millions of lives, but it has not yet led to a vaccine.
3 Share Physiology or Medicine Nobel for Discovering the Hepatitis C Virus
