food science
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New Trick Helps Winemakers Figure Out Which Microbes Make Good Wine
Winemaking is always an exercise in uncertainty. You don’t really know just what the wine will taste like until the very end of the process, which is sometimes decades long. A new technique, however, could help predict what wine will taste like before it’s even made.
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Harvard’s Robotic Bee Is Scary Lifelike (With A Few Important Exceptions)
Researchers at Harvard and MIT have spent the last seven years perfecting this robotic bee. The result is Robobee, a mechanical bee so lifelike it kind of makes you want to duck indoors.
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How The Most Common Cause Of Food Poisoning Became The Most Ignored
E. coli, salmonella and staph are the names we fear when it comes to nasty food-borne illnesses. Yet it’s norovirus that is, far and away, the most common cause of food poisoning. So why aren’t we more afraid of it?
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These Are The Foods Most Likely To Be Thrown Out As Unsafe
Every year, a huge amount of foods are brought into the country for Americans to eat, but before they do, an inspection unit checks them. Here are the foods most likely to not make the cut — and why they get tossed.