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These 5 diets could add years to your life even if you have bad genes
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (645+ words) Five dietary patterns that involve eating lots of plants have been linked with living up to three years longer, even among people who are genetically predisposed to have a shorter life A healthy diet has long been linked to living…...
The 19th-century maths that can help you deal with horrible coffee
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (527+ words) Do you need to fairly allocate players to teams, or sort out a pot of badly brewed coffee? Katie Steckles has a mathematical solution Can maths improve these cups of coffee? Imagine you have a pot of coffee that amounts…...
Civet coffee: The real chemistry behind this bizarre luxury drink
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (505+ words) Scientists are finding out how coffee beans are transformed when they pass through the guts of Asian palm civets in the hope of replicating the process without using animals An Asian palm civet Coffee beans collected from the faeces of…...
How to make great coffee with fewer beans, according to science
10+ mon, 6+ day ago (494+ words) Physicists have discovered a technique that can produce the perfect cup of coffee with up ... is very dependent on the type of coffee, the size of the grounds, the type of kettle used and numerous ... Physicists have determined that the…...