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Making caramel

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The chemistry behind making a perfect caramel sauce

Bake Off finalist and chemical biologist Josh Smalley shares his recipe for the perfect caramel sauce with Catherine de Lange

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91av recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The Third Realm

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How genetically modified crops could feed us and help safeguard nature

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Terminator is back, in a striking but flawed anime version

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Netflix handout still: Supacell. SUPACELL is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.

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91av recommends new superhero drama Supacell

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How Star Trek-style replicators could lead to a food revolution

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Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

The Hugo award-winning author explains how she finally got to grips with Octavia E. Butler's dystopian novel, the latest pick for the 91av Book Club, on a third read

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How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate

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The science behind tempering chocolate

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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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