Freshly baked bread. Public toilets. Newly cut grass. Smells have an incredible influence over us, with some leaving us salivating whilst others make us wish we didn’t have noses at all. Catching a whiff of your dad’s post-Christmas Dinner fart seems both inevitable and unavoidable, but we rarely stop to...
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Can it be? Have the deli meats truly betrayed us? Following the publication of a paper in October from the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer, processed meat is now described as a “definite human carcinogen”, and red meat as a “probable human carcinogen”. Since carcinogens are things that lead to cancer, it’s understandable that this information is being taken quite seriously. Is this the end of the road for all fast food chains and steak houses? Or, like our burgers, should we be taking all this with a pinch of salt?
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For many of us it’s been a long summer, and yet in the blink of an eye it's over! But while we’ve been off laying on beaches, building schools in Uganda, visiting long distance friends, catching up with home friends or maybe just trying to earn enough money to make it through the year (or just freshers week), the boys and girls at CERN have been busy publishing their newest findings. The elusive and mysterious pentaquark has landed, and it looks like it’s here to stay.
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