In the 1900s, a Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda managed to extract MSG from seaweed broth and declared it “the essence of taste”, describing the savoury flavour as “umami”. It’s now known as one of the ...

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Some dangers hide in plain sight — what looks like a peaceful lake or a simple hole in the ground can, in reality, be a dam. These man-made barriers hold back massive amounts of water, and when they ...