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Cocoa pods

Earth

Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

Ever since we domesticated the cocoa tree over 3000 years ago, we have been breeding them to make tastier chocolate – but in the process we have made them vulnerable

News

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Physics

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Features

chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Features

Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think

Humans

Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think

Comment

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

News

Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off

Health

Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off

Comment

Solitary tomato in fridge

Earth

Tasty tomatoes could be sacrificed in drive to cut food waste

Analysis

A fly in a glass of wine

Humans

Why a female fly will ruin your drink, but a male is fine

News

Variegated green crop circles covering what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas

Earth

If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster

Analysis

Fisherman opening sea urchins

Technology

Grow fake versions of rare delicacies like sea urchin at home

Japanese meat culturing project goes beyond hamburger to copy problematic delicacies like sea urchin, foie gras - and someday maybe dinosaur

News

Technology

Virtual cocktails hijack your senses to turn water into wine

News

Health

Anorexia films and documentaries must avoid being voyeuristic

Comment

Life

Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells

News

Life

New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza

News