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Ancient faeces sitting on a rock

Humans

Ancient faeces show Iron Age miners ate blue cheese and drank beer

Faeces samples from an Iron Age salt mine have been genetically sequenced, revealing traces of fungi found in blue cheese and beer

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Breadfruit tree

Environment

Breadfruit could be the food of the future as the climate warms

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Ripening wheat field in the UK

Environment

It’s now easier to run trials testing CRISPR-edited crops in England

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ADA TWIST, SCIENTIST (L to R) NICHOLAS CROVETTI as IGGY PECK, AMANDA CHRISTINE as ADA TWIST, and CANDACE KOZAK as ROSIE REVERE in episode 103 of ADA TWIST, SCIENTIST. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX ?? 2021

Physics

Ada Twist, ��è��Ƶ review: Brilliant children's TV for the curious

Culture

A basket of red tomatoes

Environment

Tomato is first CRISPR-edited food to go on sale in the world

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A third of the world's food goes to waste – here's how to stop the rot

Humans

A third of the world's food goes to waste – here's how to stop the rot

Features

How to sous vide steak using a beer cooler box

Humans

How to sous vide steak using a beer cooler box

Regulars

Out of date food, in kitchen bin

Question

How can we prevent and reduce food waste?

A surface with 3D ratchet structures and Auricaria leaf

Technology

Leaf-inspired material makes different liquids flow in opposite ways

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

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��è��Ƶs are often cautious or wrong – and that’s OK

We like to think that science can give us definitive answers to our questions, but uncertainty is a crucial part of the scientific process, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Environment

Global demand for fish expected to almost double by 2050

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Environment

Food production emissions make up more than a third of global total

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Health

No, there's nothing wrong with seedless fruits

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Health

Men fart more when eating a plant-based diet due to good gut bacteria

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