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Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

Humans

Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

Encouraging the growth of benign bacteria is a tasty way to preserve vegetables, such as with this easy kimchi recipe, says Sam Wong

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Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils

Humans

Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils

Culture

pancakes

Pancake day: A recipe for pancakes and the science of how it works

Regulars

For All Mankind review: A superb alternative history of the space race

Space

For All Mankind review: A superb alternative history of the space race

Culture

Spider hairs

Life

Millions of hairy tarantula skins could be used to mop up oil spills

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Optic fibres

Physics

Record-breaking quantum memory brings quantum internet one step closer

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miso soup

Humans

Umami: How to maximise the savoury taste that makes food so satisfying

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Sci-fi podcast Down asks what's really in the deepest holes on Earth

Humans

Sci-fi podcast Down asks what's really in the deepest holes on Earth

Culture

Color Out of Space: Another Nicolas Cage film that's so bad it's good

Humans

Color Out of Space: Another Nicolas Cage film that's so bad it's good

Culture

Double-slit experiment

Physics

Photon trick lets you bend the rules of quantum physics

A basic rule of quantum physics is that knowing too much about an experiment will break quantum interference, but now physicists have discovered a way to bend that rule

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Humans

How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

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Technology

What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?

Culture

Physics

This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero

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Humans

Use the science of curing to turn salmon into gravlax at home

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