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Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Health

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

The latest push to tackle growing waistlines among England's children is a call to cut calories in junk food. It won't work wonders, warns Tom Sanders

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People clinking glasses of whisky

Humans

Why adding a drop of water can make whisky taste even better

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Hand crushing a raw egg

Health

Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science

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illustration of factory work

Technology

Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up

Features

Genetically engineered salmon goes on sale for the first time

Life

Genetically engineered salmon goes on sale for the first time

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Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany

Life

Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany

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Pig whipworms on monitor

Life

Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany

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Temnothorax rugatulus ants

Life

Lazy ants lay eggs for their industrious sisters to eat

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It took 2000 years to make seed for America's famous 'corn belt'

Life

It took 2000 years to make seed for America's famous 'corn belt'

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Watering space cucumbers

Life

Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots

Away from Earth’s gravity, cucumber roots head towards water. Mimicking that moisture-seeking behaviour on our planet could help plants adapt to drought

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Technology

How to strip 99 per cent of harmful BPA from water in 30 minutes

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Earth

Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Technology

Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

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Health

Lectin-free is the new food fad that deserves to be skewered

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