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How to use 'flavour bridging' to cook a bizarre but tasty holiday meal

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How to use 'flavour bridging' to cook a bizarre but tasty holiday meal

51¶ŻÂțs have discovered 'flavour bridges' are key to unlikely – but delicious – food combinations. We tested the idea by creating a festive meal like nothing you've tasted before

Features

Joaquin Phoenix films AI HER.

Technology

The top ten films about artificial intelligence according to an expert

Culture

Space

2023 saw thrilling space missions and new cosmic mysteries

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The best new science fiction books of December 2023

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The best new science fiction books of December 2023

Culture

Colorful light trail soaring the sky connecting the world with wireless technology with the Yosemite National Park in California.

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The 13 best new science fiction books of 2023

Culture

Apartment air conditioners in a building in Singapore

Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

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Read an extract from Julia by Sandra Newman

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Read an extract from Julia by Sandra Newman

Culture

‘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

Regulars

Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

Nature has retracted the scientific paper that claimed earlier this year that the wonder material known as “red matter” was the world’s first room-temperature superconductor

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Comment

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

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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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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