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Onions.
We love to hate them.
Or rather, our eyes hate that we love them so much.
They're one of the oldest recorded vegetables in continuous use, with records dating back 4,000 years, and they've made their way into pretty much every culinary tradition in the world.
As amazing as they are, they've got one really annoying flaw.
All of the crying.
Every time you cut into one, you can't help but well up like you're watching a sad dog movie.
We actually know quite a lot about what's happening at the chemical and biological levels to make this reaction happen.
But a study published in October of 2025 looks at the onion-crying problem from a new perspective—physics.
They examined the droplets flung out of an onion being cut in various ways with a precisely-tuned onion guillotine.
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