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How to sous vide steak using a beer cooler box

Humans

How to sous vide steak using a beer cooler box

Cooking sous vide offers a route to perfection via precisely controlled temperatures. Here's how to do it at home, no gadgets necessary

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A surface with 3D ratchet structures and Auricaria leaf

Technology

Leaf-inspired material makes different liquids flow in opposite ways

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Scientists are often cautious or wrong – and that’s OK

Humans

Scientists are often cautious or wrong – and that’s OK

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An illustration of the insula in the brain

Mind

Woman loses ability to feel hungry after stroke damages her brain

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Young women preparing and canning fresh homemade strawberry jam, she pouring him into a jar

How to make delicious jam according to science

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Real milk, no cows needed: Lab-made dairy products are now a reality

Technology

Real milk, no cows needed: Lab-made dairy products are now a reality

Features

States of matter: The unthinkable forms beyond solid, liquid and gas

Physics

States of matter: The unthinkable forms beyond solid, liquid and gas

Features

Why is it so hard to say whether plants are toxic or safe?

Health

Why is it so hard to say whether plants are toxic or safe?

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Chainmail arch supporting weight

Technology

3D-printed chain mail alternates between flexibility and rigidity

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children writing

Humans

Both boys and girls tend to write stories about boys

Stories written by children in the UK aged 5 to 13 are far more likely to feature male characters – regardless of whether the writer is a boy or a girl

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Space

From Interstellar to Hidden Figures: 12 of the best space movies

Culture

The secret to keeping beetroot a beautiful red when you bake it

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Physics

New kind of ice is so bendy it can curl and uncurl without breaking

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Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon

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