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All the foods we love can be either sour, sweet, bitter, or salty. But have you ever wondered if a fifth taste exsist? Scientists have been dabating wether or not the taste known as umami is actually a basic taste. In 1985 at the first Umami International Symposium the term was officially accepted as a scientific term for describing the taste.
Umami is a japanese term that means “extremly yummy”. it describes fermented foods such as stews or even tamatos that are rich in nucleotides and glutamates.

“New” Dimonds?

Carbon is the fourth most abundunt element in the universe, it comes in a variety of different forms from soft graphite to extremely hard dimond. recently scientists at carnegies geophysical lab were apart of a team researching a new form of carbon, which is even harder than dimonds. experiments involvong glassy carbon were first conducted in the 1950s. The glassy carbon was found to have similar propertys as glass and carbon. The team created an extremly hard new substance, carbon allatrope. To create the new type of carbon the team presurized the glassy carbon to 400,000 times normal atmoshperic pressure.