Issue 93: 24 February - 2 March 2023

Kitchen engineering and the Great British Bake Off – can kids develop a taste for engineering?
By Petra Stock

The material engineer’s work is delicate, dainty and soft-hued and he keeps his recipes in Excel so he can scale them if needed. “It’s very easy to speak engineering when you’ve got cake,” says GBBO winner Giuseppe Dell’Anno.

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I had to escape a fundamentalist religious cult to pursue science
By Trevor McDougall

To grasp the urgency of the climate emergency, we need a deep understanding of our ocean’s depths.
Using DNA barcoding to stop seafood fraud
By Melissa Márquez

The seafood industry faces a growing issue of food fraud, but DNA barcoding seems to be an effective tool to test ambiguous fish labels.

Another way of making carbon capture and storage feasible
By Richard A Lovett

While shifting to green energy might be the dream way of attacking climate change, there is also a need for solutions that can be implemented now.
As Lismore slowly repairs it’s preparing for higher floods under climate change
By Glenn Morrison

As the threat of extreme weather events increases, Lismore – a city that has suffered its share of historic floods – debates whether the official flood planning levels need to be increased to meet what the future might bring.

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