In the heart of a laboratory-turned-kitchen, a chef carefully measures liquid nitrogen into a bowl of fresh mango puree. Within seconds, the mixture transforms into perfectly smooth, flash-frozen ...

As you might guess, seed oils are liquid fats that come from plant seeds. The most notable are derived from canola, corn, cottonseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed and rice bran. Some ...

Eleven of the 12 students, who all were between 13 and 14 years old, went to hospitals for treatment upon falling ill after ...

Medically reviewed by Marisa Garshick, MD A surfactant (the shortened name for "surface-acting agent") is a chemical compound ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service projects that by 2050, the total production of global ...

Although Navier–Stokes equations are the foundation of modern hydrodynamics, adapting them to quantum systems has so far been ...

When a droplet of water falls on a hot pan, it dances across the surface, skimming on a thin layer of steam like a tiny hovercraft; this is known as the Leidenfrost effect. But now, researchers know ...

Elisa Caffrey, a microbiology and immunology doctoral candidate at Stanford University, agrees, noting the potential of ...

“Before the first stars exploded, there was no water in the Universe because there was no oxygen,” said Daniel Whalen, a ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions. The ...