How mucus keeps us healthy – Katharina Ribbeck
If you've got a cold, mucus is hard to miss. But what is it, and what does it do besides making you miserable? Your body produces more than a liter…
How the food you eat affects your brain – Mia Nacamulli
Your Brain on Food If you sucked all of the moisture out of your brain and broke it down to its constituent nutritional content, what would it look like? Most…
What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you? – Sarah E. Tracy
In 1968, Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok felt ill after dinner at a Chinese restaurant. He wrote a letter detailing his symptoms to a prestigious medical journal, pondering whether his…