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Making caramel

Chemistry

The chemistry behind making a perfect caramel sauce

Bake Off finalist and chemical biologist Josh Smalley shares his recipe for the perfect caramel sauce with Catherine de Lange

Regulars

Knausgaard

Society

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The Third Realm

Culture

Grab from the 2073 poster artwork

Technology

Samantha Morton stars in dystopian docudrama 2073

Culture

AYBGY1 GM crops biohazard warning maize

Environment

How genetically modified crops could feed us and help safeguard nature

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Life

Is it really cheaper to cultivate your own fruit and vegetables?

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Terminator Zero. Timothy Olyphant as The Terminator in Terminator Zero Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX ?? 2024

Technology

Terminator is back, in a striking but flawed anime version

Culture

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Technology

How Star Trek-style replicators could lead to a food revolution

Comment

Netflix handout still: Supacell. SUPACELL is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.

Society

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends new superhero drama Supacell

Culture

Technology

Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft

News

The best new science fiction books of September 2024

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2024

From Michel Houellebecq to Booker-longlisted Richard Powers and Rachel Kushner, there is plenty of excellent science fiction to read this September

Culture

Environment

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Culture

Comment

N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

Culture

Environment

Fungus transforms food waste into haute cuisine

News

Video

How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate

Video

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