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Life

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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Technology

VR headset helps people who are legally blind see again

News

People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

Humans

People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

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Life

The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you?

Features

Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

Life

Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

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How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

Life

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

Culture

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Life

Dirty talk: How pollution is snuffing out plants' scent messages

Features

Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

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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Health

It's never too late to get a tattoo, an implant – or new senses

Culture

Technology

Painter, painter of the wall, what's the fairest colour of all?

Features

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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