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Biophotons: Are lentils sending secret quantum messages?
In the foothills to the south of Rome sits Italy’s premier nuclear physics lab, the National Laboratory of Frascati. It has all the equipment you would expect at a cutting-edge science facility, with huge magnets, powerful particle accelerators and exposed electric cables spilling out everywhere. Many of the researchers here are trying to unpick the…
Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Giving chocolate a fighting chance Maciej Gorzelinski/EyeEm/Getty READING keeps its secrets well. Some might call the town 60 kilometres west of London undistinguished. Exotic is certainly not the word. But hidden in a walled garden in a field to the south of the town is a destination both special and unique. Without what goes on…