Use the science of curing to turn salmon into gravlax at home
29 January 2020
Salt curing preserves salmon while allowing great flavours to develop. Find out the secrets of this age-old technique of preservation and make gravlax at home
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Avenue 5: Hugh Laurie discovers how space tourism can go badly wrong
29 January 2020
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?
The life of Veronique Le Guen, record-breaking caver
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Veronique Le Guen died in 1990, just two years after she had set a world record for the most time spent alone in an underground cavern
A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years
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The teeth of a man who lived in prehistoric Africa are worn in a way that suggests he had three facial piercings, the second oldest such find in the world
Neanderthals may have climbed an active volcano soon after it erupted
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Footprints on an extinct Italian volcano suggest ancient humans were regular visitors, and the shapes of the tracks point to the identity of the trackmakers
