Why Does Toothpaste Make Food Taste Funny?
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This week, we're taking on your science brainteasers! We find out why toothpaste ruins other flavours, whether humans have a mating season and why food goes in multicoloured, but comes out brown... Plus, fighting Fido's fleas with fungus, stressed men take more risks, and predicting if hepatitis B will lead to liver cancer. In Kitchen Science, we make a fruity fireball with orange peel.
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Earlier this week, it was the World Conference of Science Journalists. Nearly a thousand science writers and broadcasters from all over the world got together in Westminster, not at the houses of Westminster, but down just the road from there, to help each other out and to shar...
Why does brushing your teeth alter the flavor of substances afterwards?
If identical twins marry identical twins, will their offspring be identical?
Do men playing tennis take greater risks than women playing tennis?
I have recently observed that if you are in a shower and the glass is fogged up why is it that when you put a fingertip of soap on the glass the fog recedes. Why?
You may think that oranges are a boring fruit. Discover their more exciting side in this simple experiment.
This seems to be a simple phenomenon but I have a question on it. How do clothes dry or even how does water in any place dry out without heating it up? It’s obviously that water boils and evaporates but how does water just vanish off your clothes when they’re wet?
Why don’t humans have a mating season like other animals?
When you’ve got 15 meters worth of a hose pipe for example and you switch off the water, it immediately stops coming out off the end so where does that 15 meters of water to go?
Back in April, our technology correspondent Chris Vallance reported on the UK’s first Maker Faire. It’s now gone global, and so he’s back to tell us more...
Would a mixture of different venoms, say from all the worst fish and animals in the world, be more deadly than just any given one single venom alone?
Can copper bracelets relieve the pain of arthritis, and do magnets have healing properties?
Why is it that food that was once red or green or yellow, et cetera, comes out one color when it comes out of the human body?
My name is Garbo from London and I would like to know why don't we sneeze when we are asleep?
When we sneeze, why does it come in twos and threes?
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