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How science can help you bake a delicious vegan carrot cake

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How science can help you bake a delicious vegan carrot cake

Unlike some sponges, making a vegan version of carrot cake is easy – if you add a little science, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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coronal mass ejection from sun

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Why we study the sun’s corona during a total solar eclipse

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How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets for centuries

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The best new science fiction books of April 2024

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The best new science fiction books of April 2024

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One of NASA’s WB-57F research jets

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The ambitious plans to study the sun during April's solar eclipse

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You need some basic equipment to view the eclipse safely

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How to make an eclipse viewer

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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P40XX3 People watching and photographing total solar eclipse, Madras, Oregon

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How to take stunning photographs of a total solar eclipse

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Astonishing photograph of last year's annular solar eclipse in Utah

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Astonishing photograph of last year's annular solar eclipse in Utah

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A drawing of people worshipping the sun during an eclipse

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First Nations astronomers predicted eclipses without using writing

The oldest written records of eclipses are in cuneiform texts from around 2000 BC, but examination of oral traditions reveal First Nations astronomers were predicting eclipses by word of mouth

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The strange phenomena visible during April's total solar eclipse

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Annie Bot review: A sharp take on a sex robot that becomes human

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Life

In Frank Herbert’s Dune, fungi are hidden in plain sight

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Life

The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse

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