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

Space

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

When the Soviet Union lands on the moon first people in the US are shocked. But For All Mankind provides an even bigger surprise when one cosmonaut's identity is revealed, says Emily Wilson

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Spider hairs

Life

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

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Optic fibres

Physics

Record-breaking quantum memory brings quantum internet one step closer

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miso soup

Humans

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

Regulars

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

Humans

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

Culture

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

Humans

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

Culture

Double-slit experiment

Physics

Photon trick lets you bend the rules of quantum physics

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

Technology

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

Culture

chocolate

Humans

How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

Regulars

Chilled nanoparticles

Physics

This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero

A glass bead has been brought down to its coldest possible quantum state using a new method that may one day allow us to observe an object in two places at once

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Humans

Avenue 5: Hugh Laurie discovers how space tourism can go badly wrong

Culture

Humans

Use the science of curing to turn salmon into gravlax at home

Regulars

Physics

What is reality? Why we still don't understand the world's true nature

Features

Physics

What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

Features