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KD04GT Apple tart made in puff pastry with an apricot glaze

Chemistry

The science behind making perfect puff pastry

After a lifetime of avoidance, avid baker Catherine de Lange discovers that puff pastry isn't hard to make –you just need a bit of time

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Liquid crystals could improve quantum communication devices

Physics

Liquid crystals could improve quantum communication devices

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HDB7EX STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, Starship Enterprise, 1987-1994. Paramount/Courtesy:Everett Collection.

Space

We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

Culture

JEDTX5 Different sorts of salt

Health

There's a simple solution to our salt addiction - we must adopt it now

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How to easily satisfy your salt cravings without damaging your health

Health

How to easily satisfy your salt cravings without damaging your health

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

Physics

How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

Features

Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

Space

Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

Culture

Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

Culture

Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

In this dramatic opening to Martha Wells's All Systems Red, the latest pick for the 51¶¯Âþ Book Club, we are introduced to her character Murderbot, a sentient machine intelligence

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Chemistry

Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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Physics

Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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Health

Food 'addiction' should be treated like drug abuse, claim doctors

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Chemistry

How science can help you whip up perfect egg whites for your bakes

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