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When you taste something sweet after eating another sweet thing, the second thing doesn’t taste as sweet. Is that due to the taste receptors themselves not firing as often or is it your brain filtering out the signal?
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AskScience AMA Series: I spent the last year investigating the potential of carbon-capture technology (or "clean coal") to mitigate climate change. Ask me anything!
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When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined?
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After death how long do processes like digestion or cell regeneration continue to go on and what ultimately stops them?
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Do plants like lavender, rosemary, chrysanthemums, etc. actually work as just plants to repel insects?
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