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Color Out of Space: Another Nicolas Cage film that's so bad it's good

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Color Out of Space: Another Nicolas Cage film that's so bad it's good

Nicolas Cage grapples with a weird luminous alien presence in the movie Color Out of Space. It's a story that has roots in a late-19th-century obsession with new forms of radiation, says Simon Ings

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miso soup

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Umami: How to maximise the savoury taste that makes food so satisfying

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Sci-fi podcast Down asks what's really in the deepest holes on Earth

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Sci-fi podcast Down asks what's really in the deepest holes on Earth

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What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?

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What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?

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chocolate

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How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

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Hugh Laurie

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Avenue 5: Hugh Laurie discovers how space tourism can go badly wrong

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gravlax salmon

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Use the science of curing to turn salmon into gravlax at home

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

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

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The claim that our food is becoming less nutritious is overblown

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The claim that our food is becoming less nutritious is overblown

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Electrified artificial skin can feel exactly where it is touched

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Electrified artificial skin can feel exactly where it is touched

Orange-coloured gel has been made into artificial skin that can be 3D printed in any shape and detect human touch – one day it could help robots feel

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How to cook perfect chips: Learn the science of crispiness

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Earth

Living 'concrete' made from bacteria used to create replicating bricks

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Space

China has developed the world’s first mobile quantum satellite station

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How to make halloumi and ricotta cheese using ancient biotechnology

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