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Apartment air conditioners in a building in Singapore

Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

A heat-pump-like system that relies on a phenomenon called electrocaloric cooling could heat or chill a room almost twice as efficiently as standard air-conditioning units

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Read an extract from Julia by Sandra Newman

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Read an extract from Julia by Sandra Newman

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‘It felt detoxifying’: Retelling 1984 from a female perspective

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‘It felt detoxifying’: Retelling 1984 from a female perspective

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Chemistry

Homemade malt is the key to baking the perfect loaf of bread

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Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

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The sun with solar flares coming off it

Space

The sun is smaller than we thought it was

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Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t lift Aronofsky movie

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Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t lift Aronofsky movie

Culture

The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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Jeff Goldblum in The Fly

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The scariest sci-fi horror movies for Halloween, chosen by an expert

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Life

Vegan cheese made from fermented peas could taste more like dairy

When a mixture of pea protein and sunflower oil is fermented with lactic acid-producing bacteria, it develops a firm texture and produces flavour compounds found in dairy cheese

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Health

Your ultimate guide to ultra-processed food – how bad is it really?

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Space

The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was

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Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird

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Space

Slicing the moon in half would be disastrous for Earth – but beautiful

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