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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

Almost 200 people died in the German floods of 2021 because experts couldn’t convince them of impending danger. We must rethink how to get through to the public, says hydrologist Hannah Cloke

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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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S0J9ED Cascade hops fresh off of the vine.

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

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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

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Six pointed snowflake

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Kenneth Libbrecht interview: A grand unified theory of snowflakes

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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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Mary Robinette Kowal: An exclusive short story for �鶹��ý

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Mary Robinette Kowal: An exclusive short story for �鶹��ý

A pianist faces a difficult choice when it comes to playing a new piece, in By the Pricking of My Robotic Thumbs, a short story by Hugo and Nebula-award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal

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

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Physicists have created a new type of diamond by crushing buckyballs

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An inside look at oysters – and how to enjoy them safely

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Space

How you can get involved with the hunt for gravitational waves

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