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How to perform the culinary technique of spherification at home

A hallmark of top-tier modernist cuisine, spherification is nevertheless something you can try in your own kitchen. It's time to conquer your spheres, says Sam Wong

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The underwater sea farm that's like a space station

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The underwater sea farm that's like a space station

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Science needs to address its imagination problem - lives depend on it

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Science needs to address its imagination problem - lives depend on it

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Purple 'superfood' tomato could finally go on sale in the US

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Purple 'superfood' tomato could finally go on sale in the US

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Deep-fried ice cream with caramel sauce

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How to create a delicious deep-fried ice cream dessert

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Homemade Cucumber Pickles in Jars

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How to perfectly pickle your cucumbers

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PWBMC4 Multi-coloured biodegradable and compostable paper straws in a cafe in London, UK

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Edible straws made by bacteria are better than paper or plastic ones

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Hiroshi Ezura, a professor of genetic engineering at the University of Tsukuba, with his genome edited tomato plant (Naoki Shoji).

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2021 in review: CRISPR-edited food goes on sale to public

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Snowflake spotters needed to give climate science a boost

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The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

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The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

We have been making cheese for millennia, but researchers are only now getting to grips with how bacteria, fungi and viruses combine to create its characteristic flavours and textures

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Kenneth Libbrecht interview: A grand unified theory of snowflakes

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How climate change is shaking up the hops that give beer its flavour

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We’ll never understand the universe while we’re drowning in admin

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