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NASA missions may go to Venus or our solar system’s strangest moons

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NASA missions may go to Venus or our solar system’s strangest moons

NASA has selected four potential future missions – to Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, Neptune’s icy moon Triton, and two that would explore the atmosphere and map the surface of Venus

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Spider hairs

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

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miso soup

Humans

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

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

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

Humans

How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

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Starlink launch January 29 2020

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Legal action could be used to stop Starlink affecting telescope images

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gravlax salmon

Humans

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

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Hugh Laurie

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

Space tourism has taken off in HBO’s comedy Avenue 5, but the ship is off course, just like the jokes. Can the captain, Hugh Laurie, save the day?

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Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

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The claim that our food is becoming less nutritious is overblown

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Humans

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

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Life

Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth

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