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Chocolate Rules

For a lot of people, there’s no better taste combo than chocolate and nuts. For food scientists, though, this combination is a major headache. This candy bar combines chocolate and peanuts. Nuts...

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The Color of Health

Nature is full of color, from rainbows and roses to butterfly wings and peacock tails. Even the fruits and vegetables you eat often have distinctive colors: intensely blue blueberries, deeply red...

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Healing honey

Coughs, sniffles, sneezes, runny noses: Colds and other nasty lung infections are especially common in winter. To fight the misery, many people swallow syrups and pills that claim to clear stuffy...

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Salt secrets

The salt that you sprinkle onto food is easy to measure. Unfortunately, it may be just a fraction of the total salt in your daily diet. evemilla/iStockphoto When you look at your food, some...

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A pepper part that burns fat

By Stephen Ornes Diet fads come and go, but in the end, there’s really only one rule for losing weight: Burn more energy than you consume. In April, scientists from California reported on a chemical...

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Meat from scratch

Scientists are working to produce meat without killing animals

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Sniffing out truffle scent

Genetics, not geography, plays key role in the aroma of the delicacy

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Cool Jobs: People with a taste for chemistry

Chemists contribute to food flavorings, fuel extraction and everything in between

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