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No, Cheese Is Not Really ‘Like Cocaine’If you’re looking for an excuse to wolf down that double-cheese pizza for lunch, you may have found it in a news story that’s gone viral. Among the headlines: “Cheese Is as Addictive...

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No, Cheese Is Not Really ‘Like Cocaine’

If you’re looking for an excuse to wolf down that double-cheese pizza for lunch, you may have found it in a news story that’s gone viral. Among the headlines: “Cheese Is as Addictive as Cocaine,” “Cheese Really Is Crack,” and “Study Finds That Cheese Is Just as Addictive as Drugs.”

The problem is that the study cited in these stories found no such thing.

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Source: TIME
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See the First Photo Ever Taken in Space Colorized69 years ago, on October 24, 1946, a V-2 missile fitted with a 35mm camera took the first ever photo from space.
The grainy, black and white photo was, at the time, considered revolutionary. It was the...

See the First Photo Ever Taken in Space Colorized

69 years ago, on October 24, 1946, a V-2 missile fitted with a 35mm camera took the first ever photo from space.

The grainy, black and white photo was, at the time, considered revolutionary. It was the first time humanity saw Earth in the context of the vast, empty space.

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Learn more about the history of the first photo taken in space

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Choosing to Wait: A New Approach to Breast Cancer at Its Earliest Stages

“My daughter’s initial reaction was, ‘Mom, if it was me, I’d take it out,‘” Laura Colletti, 60, recalls.

Colletti was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), also known as Stage 0 breast cancer, in April 2014. But rather than immediately having surgery, Colletti opted for an alternative—something called active surveillance.

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This video is a companion to the TIME cover story: Why Doctors Are Rethinking Breast Cancer

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What the Modern Presence of Water on Mars MeansScientists have discovered signs of water on Mars, which adds to the speculation that life could survive on the planet. NASA says the new findings published today “provide the strongest evidence yet that...

What the Modern Presence of Water on Mars Means

Scientists have discovered signs of water on Mars, which adds to the speculation that life could survive on the planet. NASA says the new findings published today “provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.” In this photograph, dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The streaks are roughly the length of a football field. Read more on TIME.com. (Photograph by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) #👽 #💧

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Stargazers were treated to a rare sight on Sunday night: a supermoon eclipse. The phenomenon only happens when a full lunar eclipse coincides with the moon’s closest approach to the Earth. Until Sunday night, these events had not occurred in unison...

Stargazers were treated to a rare sight on Sunday night: a supermoon eclipse. The phenomenon only happens when a full lunar eclipse coincides with the moon’s closest approach to the Earth. Until Sunday night, these events had not occurred in unison for 33 years, and another 18 years will pass before we get to experience a supermoon eclipse again. Learn more and see a gallery of the best supermoon photographs on TIME.com. Photographs by AP; GIF by Mia Tramz for TIME

See more of TIME’s lunar eclipse coverage here.

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