All our recipe books are missing one crucial ingredient. We may not notice it now, but if astronauts were to one day take our recipe books and a set of scales with them to Mars or the Moon, they would immediately have a problem.

Physicist Helen Czerski explores the fascinating physics that link our planet to your kitchen scales, and what effect that has on your favourite Victoria Sponge recipe.

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