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food science

Someone about to eat a large dessert

Health

'Stomach tap' to let obese people empty their gut after eating

A device that allows people who are obese to empty a portion of their stomach contents into the toilet after a meal has been approved for use in the US

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A woman at a blackboard covered in equations

Humans

Quick fixes on stereotypes won’t mean more female scientists

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Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

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Warning symbol made of a sausage with a rice background

Health

Fat vs carbs: What's really worse for your health?

Features

An exotic, colourful buffet arrangement

Earth

Pests for dinner: Taking down invasive species a bite at a time

Culture

A tabby cat's face peeking out of a box, green eye

Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

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painting of Mary Somerville

Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

Features

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Health

Official dietary advice on fat and sugar challenged

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Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

Leader

Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Emilie du Châtelet was a talented mathematician and experimental physicist who took on France's intellectual establishment. But history hasn't done her justice

Features

Earth

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

Analysis

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

Culture

Physics

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

Features

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