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How science can help you whip up perfect egg whites for your bakes

Olga Mazyarkina/Getty Images Last week was the Jewish festival of Passover, when it is forbidden to eat any leavened products.…

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Keeping another pandemic at bay is now the job of food science

Maybe these aren’t mysteries but food science problems that will be quickly solved like all the others. Or not. The…

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The next frontier of forensic science: blood splatter in microgravity?

Blood spatter on high “Be prepared!” This enduring motto of the Scout movement will come to mind for many readers…

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Separating science fact from fiction in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ 

The orbits of a trio of stars can be so chaotic that it’s impossible to precisely calculate the stars’ future…

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The world’s first successful limb re-attachment is a fascinating story of science and human ingenuity

On May 23, 1962, 12-year-old little league pitcher Everette “Eddy” Woodrow Knowles III survived a traumatic accident that would change…

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Should you take vitamin D? Here’s the science

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Nutritional science is supposed to chart a course to our healthier selves. But…

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Geothermal power heats up | Popular Science

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Glistening in the dry expanses of the Nevada desert is an unusual kind…

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J Doyne Farmer: The man reinventing economics with chaos theory and complexity science

IN 2006, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York started to worry about the overheating US housing market.…

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In ‘Get the Picture,’ science helps explore the meaning of art

Get the PictureBianca BoskerViking, $29 If you’re like me, perhaps you’ve visited a contemporary art installation, seen a painting of…

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How science can inspire ‘peak experiences’ that improve well-being

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI In the middle of the last century, the psychologist Abraham Maslow set about investigating the…

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