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Eggs in frying pan

Health

Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong

Are carbs good for you? Or eggs? Every week seems to bring contradictory new diet advice. New Scientist unpicks the surprising flaws in nutritional science

Features

box of veg

Health

Is organic food better for you? Here's the truth about the benefits

Comment

Patrick Brown of Impossible Foods

Environment

Impossible Foods boss says we should tax meat to boost veg-based diets

News

Sugar

Definition

Sugar

salad leaves being washed

Health

Vegetables as well as meat could spread superbugs into food chain

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Everything you need to know about the hospital food listeria outbreak

Health

Everything you need to know about the hospital food listeria outbreak

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A crepe being made

Physics

How to make the perfect crêpe according to fluid dynamics

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crop spraying

Environment

Superweeds are on the brink of becoming resistant to all weedkillers

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Twins eat an ice cream

Health

How your body processes food is only partially down to your genes

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A spoon of sugar

Health

Why the truth about our sugar intake isn't as bad as we are told

Read the headlines, and you would think we are eating more sugar than ever before – but the numbers reveal a very different story, says James Wong

Comment

Humans

Early farmers liked alcohol so much they invented two ways to brew it

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Health

Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies

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Technology

Turning CO2 into animal feed could make it greener for us to eat meat

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Life

Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money

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