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Vegan cheese made from fermented peas could taste more like dairy

When a mixture of pea protein and sunflower oil is fermented with lactic acid-producing bacteria, it develops a firm texture and produces flavour compounds found in dairy cheese

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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?

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Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird

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Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird

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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen

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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The best new science fiction books of October 2023

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Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually strong materials

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Plastic scrap in landfill

Technology

Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene

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Physics

Squeezing loofah sponges creates enough electricity to power LEDs

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ORDOS, CHINA - JULY 7, 2023 - Citizens use photovoltaic energy from the roof of a shed to charge an electric vehicle at a public parking lot in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, July 7, 2023. Ordos City vigorously promotes the construction of photovoltaic power generation projects on the roofs of administrative institutions, government agencies, schools and public parking sheds. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Environment

How to reach net zero five times faster

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Back to the Future

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The 10 best time travel movies ever made, according to a metaphysicist

From Back to the Future to Tenet and Interstellar, the joint director of the Centre for Time reveals her favourite time travel movies – both consistent and inconsistent (hello Marty McFly)

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Five of sci-fi's best corporate villains, according to author John Scalzi

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Can the UK’s new ARIA science agency deliver ‘moonshot’ technologies?

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A brief history of the standard model, our theory of almost everything

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The best new science fiction books of September 2023

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