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Spider hairs

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

The dense, bristly hairs on the skins shed by tarantulas when they moult are naturally efficient sponges and could be used to soak up ocean oil spills

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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

miso soup

Humans

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

Regulars

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

chocolate

Humans

How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

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

Technology

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

Culture

Starlink launch January 29 2020

Space

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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A man gazes at the Milky Way

Space

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

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Hugh Laurie

Humans

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?

Culture

Life

Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth

Features

Humans

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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Space

Chinese Chang’e 4 engineer explains how to garden on the moon

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