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Junk food is mathematically engineered to hit a specific metric that ensures you can’t stop eating. What is it?

Bananas contain potassium-40, making them legitimately radioactive enough to trigger false alarms at nuclear checkpoints if you pack enough of them, though you would need to eat…

There’s a gene that decides whether cilantro tastes like soap.

You slather on sunscreen at the beach, but how does the chemical lotion actually stop a severe burn?

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When you get a bad sunburn after falling asleep at the beach, what terrifying microscopic event is causing the pain?

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