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Chemistry

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

The secret to a perfect, golden loaf (or tasty brew) is an enzyme in malt. And making your own is easy – it just takes some barley grains, water and a bit of patience, says Sam Wong

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Les scientifiques du CNRS et de l?universit? chilienne d?Antofagasta collectent des ?chantillons et de l?eau sur la Laguna Roja au nord du Chili. Avec un petit canot pneumatique, ils vont s?aventurer sur ce lac d?arsenic pour r?colter avec une bouteille sp?ciale, de l?eau ? diff?rente profondeur pour faire des analyses chimiques et voir si des microorganismes arrivent ? vivre dans ces conditions extr?mes.

Life

Chile's Atacama salt flats captured in spectacular drone shot

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Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

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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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An illustration of the early surface of Earth with a volcano erupting in the background.

Life

How we will discover the mysterious origins of life once and for all

Features

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

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Assortment of products with high sugar level like candies, gummy candies, soda, donuts, chocolate, lollipop, wafers and cupcakes on a table.

Health

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

Features

Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird

Technology

Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird

The lab-grown meat industry needs to perfect and normalise the staples, like chicken and beef, before jumping to exotic alternatives like mammoth, argues Brian Kateman

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Earth

Earth’s core is oddly squishy and we may now know why

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Space

ISS livestream: Watch a live link-up with astronaut Andreas Mogensen

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The best new science fiction books of October 2023

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Technology

Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually strong materials

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