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Is your salad going to kill you?

Health

Is your salad going to kill you?

Plants need nitrates for good growth, but they can also accumulate in leaves of crops like rocket. So are foods like this safe to eat, wonders James Wong

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Frost on leaves

Technology

Artificial leaves made from aluminium could keep windows frost-free

News

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Humans

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Culture

How to make noodles: the art and science of manipulating gluten

Humans

How to make noodles: the art and science of manipulating gluten

Regulars

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

Humans

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

Regulars

Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine

Humans

Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine

Culture

Liquid metal that floats on water could make transformable robots

Chemistry

Liquid metal that floats on water could make transformable robots

News

How to make a sourdough starter and delicious sourdough bread

Humans

How to make a sourdough starter and delicious sourdough bread

Regulars

Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?

Life

Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?

Culture

The Doors of Eden cover

Technology

The Doors of Eden review: A gripping alternative biology tech-thriller

Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest novel The Doors of Eden rewrites Earth's evolutionary history, with highlights including fish that upload their minds to supercomputers and cats that rule over primates

Culture

Humans

Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

Regulars

Humans

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

Culture

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

Regulars

Space

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

Culture

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