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

Humans

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

This week, listen as Reply All goes down the internet rabbit hole, watch the second series of Netflix's Altered Carbon, and ponder what fossils our culture will leave for the far future

Culture

pancakes

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

Regulars

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

Culture

Spider hairs

Life

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

News

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

chocolate

Humans

How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

Regulars

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

The best picture ever taken of the sun reveals its bizarre surface

Space

The best picture ever taken of the sun reveals its bizarre surface

The best picture of the sun is more than five times more detailed than the previous highest-resolution images, revealing weird structures on our star’s surface

News

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

Humans

Here's how to make your own tofu for Chinese New Year

Regulars

Health

The claim that our food is becoming less nutritious is overblown

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