Enlarge / Scientists at the University of Nottingham have discovered how to create different colors of blue cheese. University of Nottingham reader comments 47 Gourmands are well aware of the many varieties of blue cheese, known by the blue-green veins that ripple through the cheese. Different kinds of blue cheese have distinctive flavor profiles: they ..
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Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority reader comments 102 There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January ..
Enlarge / The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 and is still located in the same historic building at 21 Albermarle Street in London. reader comments 20 If you’re a fan of science, and especially science history, no trip to London is complete without visiting the Royal Institution, browsing the extensive collection of artifacts housed ..
Enlarge / Great British Bake Off judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith (top) and presenters Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding. Mark Bourdillon/Love Productions/Channel 4 reader comments 26 The Great British Bake Off (TGBBO)—aka The Great British Baking Show in the US and Canada—features amateur bakers competing each week in a series of baking challenges, culminating ..
Enlarge / The lab’s empty because everyone’s relaxing in the park while the AI does their work. reader comments 39 Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, AIs are nowhere close to being ready to replace humans for doing science. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t help automate some of the drudgery out of the ..
Enlarge / Red wine headache (RWH) might be caused by quercetin, which inhibits an enzyme that processes acetaldehyde in the blood. reader comments 90 with As the holiday season kicks off this week, many will be making a consequential choice at dinner: red wine or white wine? And if your choice is red, will you ..
Enlarge / A tiny fleck of paint, taken from the Mona Lisa, is revealing insights into previously unknown steps of Leonardo da Vinci’s process. Public domain reader comments 18 with When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, he may have experimented with lead oxide in his base layer, resulting in trace ..
Enlarge / As paint drops dry, they can look like a “fried egg” (left) or develop a more even pigment distribution (right). S.M.M. Ramos et al., Langmuir 2023/ACS reader comments 19 with French scientists have been watching paint drops dry and monitoring the resulting patterns in hopes of finding ways to better control the drying ..
Enlarge / Saltwater taffy is made by stretching and pulling the sticky candy base to create air bubbles for a fluffy and chewy confection. reader comments 31 with When San To Chan successfully defended their PhD thesis, they received a gift of saltwater taffy to celebrate and couldn’t help being intrigued by the taffy’s unusual ..
Enlarge / One of the limestone canopic jars that once held mummified organs of the Egyptian noblewoman Senetnay (c. 1450 BCE). Museum August Kestner, Hannover/Christian Tepper reader comments 10 with Trying to re-create the scents and smells of the past is a daunting challenge, given the ephemeral nature of these olfactory cues. Now scientists have ..