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

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

By understanding garlic's chemistry we can amp up its pungency in a fiery garlic sauce or tame it through gentle cooking to make mellow garlic confit, says Sam Wong

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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 review: A gripping alternative biology tech-thriller

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

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

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Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

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Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

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

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

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

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

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miso soup

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

Food tastes satisfying thanks to the amino acid glutamate, which stimulates the umami taste. Sam Wong explains how to boost it in your recipes

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

Culture

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

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

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How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

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