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Is your salad going to kill you?

Health

Is your salad going to kill you?

Plants need nitrates for good growth, but they can also accumulate in leaves of crops like rocket. So are foods like this safe to eat, wonders James Wong

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Frost on leaves

Technology

Artificial leaves made from aluminium could keep windows frost-free

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Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Humans

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Culture

How to make noodles: the art and science of manipulating gluten

Humans

How to make noodles: the art and science of manipulating gluten

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Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine

Humans

Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine

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Use the science of garlic to bring sweetness or fire to your food

Humans

Use the science of garlic to bring sweetness or fire to your food

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How to make a sourdough starter and delicious sourdough bread

Humans

How to make a sourdough starter and delicious sourdough bread

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Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?

Life

Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?

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The Doors of Eden cover

Technology

The Doors of Eden review: A gripping alternative biology tech-thriller

Culture

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

This week, listen as Reply All goes down the internet rabbit hole, watch the second series of Netflix's Altered Carbon, and ponder what fossils our culture will leave for the far future

Culture

Humans

Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

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

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Space

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

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Life

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

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