Plant Hudders Transplants can result in new kinds of vegetables
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Keygene’s new potato variety (center) has the skin of pimpernel (left) and the flesh from Bintje (right) With the permission of the Keygene A new technique for creating fruits and…
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Why we might be asking for dessert even when we’re full from dinner
You always have room for a sugary treat Marioguti/IstockPhoto/Getty Images Even after eating a big meal, most people can still find space for sweets. Now research in mice shows that…
The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook
How do you cook your eggs? Daniel Heighton Food Collection/Alamy Cooking a perfectly boiled egg takes at least half an hour, physicists have claimed as they say that the best…
‘Artificial tongue’ can detect chemical composition of alcoholic drinks
Molecular testing can be used to assess beverage quality Evgenii Parilov/Alamy Beverage manufacturers and consumers may soon have a small, portable kit, not much bigger than a covid test, to…