Science Builds a Better Pie
Fine-tune crust texture by paying attention to the size of butter pieces as you combine them with flour. When you add water to the flour-butter mixture, the butter impedes the water from interacting...
View ArticleThe science behind the anguish of a hunger strike
Column One Thomas Mahany has starved himself three times in the name of justice. Mahany knows how hard your body struggles, how you eventually get used to the gnawing in your stomach, but grow so weary...
View ArticleHuman liver tissue transplants in mice raise stem cell treatment hopes
Scientists have made pieces of human liver from stem cells and, by transplanting them into mice, have shown they behave like healthy organs. Tiny clumps of liver tissue were hooked up to the animals’...
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Video game consultant Maral Tajerian knows an awful lot about snail sex. For her master’s thesis, she studied the little creatures while they got freaky, modeling how their behaviors and brain...
View ArticleRadio 4 launches new weekly science show, Inside Science
Science is culture. It always has been, of course, but in the past few years we’ve witnessed fundamental changes in how science is done, and reported, and its place in popular culture. For a long time...
View ArticleOnline gamers invited to vote for favourite science-inspired video game
Image courtesy of The Royal Society. (Summer Science Exhibition Game Jam 2013). Are you a science geek who loves playing online games? If so, then the Royal Society is seeking your help: they are...
View ArticleScience Of Fireworks: How Do The 4th Of July Pyrotechnics Work?
About halfway between the comparatively sedate Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays, you can’t miss the pyrotechnical gloriousness that is Fourth of July. Come nightfall, thousands of fireworks displays...
View ArticleSaul Perlmutter: ‘Science is about figuring out your mistakes’
Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter never thought “Eureka!” when, in 1997, his observations of exploding stars called supernovae suggested that the expansion of the universe, begun by...
View ArticleWhat is talent – and can science spot what we will be best at?
My interest in the science of talent has a personal backstory. By the age of three, I’d had 21 ear infections and after an operation to remove fluid from my ears, it took me an extra step to process...
View ArticleFighting wildfires with science
(CBS News) LOS ANGELES – This is already one of the worst wildfire seasons on record, and it’s only early July. According to one estimate, 740,000 homes in 13 western states with a total value of $136...
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