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Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025

Cacio e pepe pasta and boiled eggs were the subjects of meticulous studies aiming to help cooks achieve perfection, but the reimagined recipes weren't always well-received

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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

Mind

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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Chemistry

Civet coffee: The real chemistry behind this bizarre luxury drink

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A radical rethink of what makes your diet healthy or bad for you

Health

A radical rethink of what makes your diet healthy or bad for you

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Why not all ultra-processed foods are bad for you

Health

Why not all ultra-processed foods are bad for you

Comment

The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

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Environment

Simple menu tweak can nudge people into choosing climate-friendly food

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The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life

Health

The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life

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A child in Peru takes candy from a shelf

Health

Child obesity is now more common than undernutrition – what do we do?

Analysis

Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

We know fermented foods do us good, but the ZOE founder's new book still surprises with fascinating facts - and avoids feeling like an ad for his gut supplements, says Helen Thomson

Culture

Mind

L-theanine: Can a compound in tea lower anxiety and help you focus?

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Environment

Are farmed oysters, mussels and clams the ultimate green foods?

Analysis

Environment

Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates

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Health

Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads help us lose weight?

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