Ask us Anything by Popular Science

Ask us Anything by Popular Science

Hosted by Sarah Durn and Annie Colbert and Laura Baisas · Popular Science

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67
Episodes
10
Transcribed
157
Ratings
Bi-weekly
Cadence
2021
First episode

About Ask us Anything by Popular Science

Popular Science answers your most outlandish, mind-burning questions—from the everyday things you’ve always wondered to the bizarre things you never thought to ask. Join our editors as they explain it all, with new episodes every other Wednesday. Submit a question for a future episode at https://popsci.com/ask

Publisher
Popular Science
Category
science
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
3 Mar 2021
Latest episode
29 Oct 2026
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10 of 67 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Why does candy taste different now?

  2. 16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Why don't humans have tails?

  3. 30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    What’s the best sleep position?

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Why does candy taste different now?

Published 29 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] There is. But Hershey will still experiment with new formulas for other products. So I wouldn't expect every candy to suddenly taste exactly the way it did in 1998. Fair enough. But here's the big takeaway. If you've bitten into your favorite childhood candy and thought, this isn't as good as it used to be, you might actually be on to something. Manufacturers really do change the recipes. Sometimes those changes are tiny and sometimes they accumulate over decades. But our own taste perception changes too. So the answer to whether candy tastes different now is... Complicated. Complicated. The most scientific answer of all. […]

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