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March-April 2023

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March-April 2023

Volume: 111 Number: 2

Innovative chefs, culinary entrepreneurs, and home cooks are using 3D printers to create food combinations and shapes that have never been made before. Food chemist Matthew R. Hartings covers these food explorations and offers readers guidance on getting started themselves (“A Chemist’s Guide to 3D-Printed Cuisine,”). Many unexplored possibilities remain for the intrepid DIY maker to try. From custom sugar sculptures to meat substitutes to food fabrication in space, inventors are mixing culinary science, visual arts, and tech to sculpt a whole new dining experience. (Cover illustration by Owen Davey/Folio Art.)

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The Inevitably Incomplete Story of Human Evolution

Bernard Anthony Wood, Alexis Uluutku

Anthropology Biology Evolution

With an unknown amount of evidence yet to be found and possible bias in our interpretations, current accounts of human evolution can only be provisional.

Unearthly Beauty

James F Bell

Art Astronomy

The outer reaches of the Solar System offer glimpses of reality outside our human experience.