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Earth science

How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage

Mind

How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage

Briefly blasting vin ordinaire with an electric field can make it taste like a vintage tipple – good enough to fool even the experts

Features

Gas memory could send spooky messages the full distance

Technology

Gas memory could send spooky messages the full distance

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Review: <i>Mars 3D</i> by Jim Bell

Space

Review: Mars 3D by Jim Bell

Books & Arts

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Review: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart

Books & Arts

Spinning water droplets behave like black holes

Space

Spinning water droplets behave like black holes

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Review: <i>The White Road and Other Stories</i> by Tania Hershman

Review: The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman

Books & Arts

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Editor's picks 2008

Books & Arts

Review: <i>Cool Stuff Exploded</i> by Chris Woodford

Review: Cool Stuff Exploded by Chris Woodford

Books & Arts

Review: <i>Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 18</i>

Review: Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 18

Books & Arts

Review: <i>Audubon: Early drawings</i>

Review: Audubon: Early drawings

Artist John James Audubon is famous for his magnificent Birds of America, but his early drawings had a charm that is missing from his masterworks

Books & Arts

Space

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

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What makes the universe tick?

Features

Space

Tick, tock goes the quantum clock

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Technology

'Quackers' tarnish quantum secrecy's halo of invincibility

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