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food science

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Humans

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

For science to attract the women it still badly needs and contribute to thinking through today’s tough issues, it must first call out the sexism at its heart

Culture

Cocoa pods

Earth

Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

News

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Physics

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Features

Black hole

Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

News

bird in nest

Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

Features

book pages

Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

Features

sloth

Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Features

whale artwork

Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

Features

chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Features

Starry Night painting

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

Natural blue pigments to colour paints, inks and plastics are so hard to find that people will go to the depths of Earth to discover new ones

Features

Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

News

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

Features

Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

Features

Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Features

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