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Popular Science’s favorite stories of 2020

13 staff recommendations worth revisiting.
By Dec 8, 2020
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Rescue dried-out cheese with this simple trick

Queso en aceite—cheese marinated in oil—breathes new life into old curds.
By Dec 1, 2020
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When specialty cheesemaking becomes a quarantine pastime

Parisian architect Antoine Ricardou did not plan to tend cheese. Then COVID-19 happened.
By Oct 26, 2020
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Everything you need to know about deadly listeria outbreaks

Food safety is no joke.
By Oct 2, 2020
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The scientific way to make perfectly creamy fondue

A food scientist explains the do’s and don’ts of the ultimate melted cheese sauce.
By Jun 4, 2020
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Almost everything you know about cheese is wrong

Shredded cheese doesn’t melt as well and other fascinating facts about fromage.
By Jun 4, 2020
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Meet the hard-working microbes that make your favorite cheeses

We have tiny living things to thank for all that flavor.
By May 20, 2020
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Why baseball players ‘bone’ their bats

Rubbing down wooden bats with cow femurs is a sort-of-scientific superstition.
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There’s a better way to cut the cheese

Thou shalt not sin against cheese.
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The weirdest things we learned this week: holes in people (and cows), illegal cheese, and the world’s worst dairy disaster

Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.