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Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird

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Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird

The lab-grown meat industry needs to perfect and normalise the staples, like chicken and beef, before jumping to exotic alternatives like mammoth, argues Brian Kateman

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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen

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The best new science fiction books of October 2023

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Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually strong materials

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Plastic scrap in landfill

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Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene

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Squeezing loofah sponges creates enough electricity to power LEDs

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ORDOS, CHINA - JULY 7, 2023 - Citizens use photovoltaic energy from the roof of a shed to charge an electric vehicle at a public parking lot in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, July 7, 2023. Ordos City vigorously promotes the construction of photovoltaic power generation projects on the roofs of administrative institutions, government agencies, schools and public parking sheds. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

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Five of sci-fi's best corporate villains, according to author John Scalzi

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Silkworms genetically engineered to produce pure spider silk

Spider silk has been seen as a greener alternative to artificial fibres like nylon and Kevlar, but spiders are notoriously hard to farm. Now researchers have used CRISPR to genetically engineer silkworms that produce pure spider silk

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Can the UK’s new ARIA science agency deliver ‘moonshot’ technologies?

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