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Deep-fried ice cream with caramel sauce

Humans

How to create a delicious deep-fried ice cream dessert

To create crowd-pleasing puds like chocolate fondants or hot balls of cornflake-covered ice cream, bring some fundamental physics to the table, says Sam Wong

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Earth

Geologists to pinpoint official birthplace of the Anthropocene in 2022

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Homemade Cucumber Pickles in Jars

Humans

How to perfectly pickle your cucumbers

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PWBMC4 Multi-coloured biodegradable and compostable paper straws in a cafe in London, UK

Technology

Edible straws made by bacteria are better than paper or plastic ones

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PAHOA, HI - MAY 4: In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, a column of robust, reddish-brown ash plume occurred after a magnitude 6.9 South Flank following the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on May 4, 2018 in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii. The governor of Hawaii has declared a local state of emergency near the Mount Kilauea volcano after it erupted following a 5.0-magnitude earthquake, forcing the evacuation of nearly 1,700 residents. (Photo by U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images)

Earth

Plumes of rock that feed volcanic hotspots are surprisingly cold

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Culture

Hiroshi Ezura, a professor of genetic engineering at the University of Tsukuba, with his genome edited tomato plant (Naoki Shoji).

Technology

2021 in review: CRISPR-edited food goes on sale to public

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S0J9ED Cascade hops fresh off of the vine.

Humans

How climate change is shaking up the hops that give beer its flavour

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Humans

Snowflake spotters needed to give climate science a boost

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The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

Life

The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

We have been making cheese for millennia, but researchers are only now getting to grips with how bacteria, fungi and viruses combine to create its characteristic flavours and textures

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Humans

Kenneth Libbrecht interview: A grand unified theory of snowflakes

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Humans

We’ll never understand the universe while we’re drowning in admin

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Space

Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind

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Physics

Physicists have created a new type of diamond by crushing buckyballs

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