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A biologist explains where proteins come from and what role the 20,000 or so proteins in your body play in keeping you alive and kicking.

Why do smoke detector alarms go off even when there’s no smoke? The most likely reason smoke detectors go off unexpectedly is that people aren’t changing the batteries in them often enough. In most sensors you might think of, the strength of the signal goes up when they detect what they’re supposed to. But most smoke detectors are instead designed to go off when their electrical current goes down. That’s because smoke in the air will reduce the current. If your battery is dying, the current that’s flowing through your sensor also goes down. And so you can get a false positive.