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Popcorn has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. But though scientists have long known that expanding moisture within a kernel of corn causes it to burst into all its edible glory, ...

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Scientists doing the truly important work of our time have finally discovered exactly how popcorn pops with fittingly beautiful slow motion video. Leave it to scientists to make a “popcorn movie” ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

You have to wonder how people originally figured out how to eat some foods that are beloved today. The cassava plant is toxic if not carefully processed through multiple steps. Yogurt is basically old ...

McKenzie did a fair amount of real-world research on the popcorn front, and his most important finding (as far as I’m concerned) is that if you’re in a cinema which gives you a choice between buying a ...

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