“Behold the cakie: It has the crispiness of a cookie and the, well, ‘cakiness’ of a cake.” So says a triumphant blog post by Google Cloud’s developer advocate and an applied AI Engineer for Google’s Cloud AI. “We also made breakies, which were more like fluffy cookies, almost the consistency of a muffin” (or bread). Food and Wine explains the project…
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Home baking frenzy inspires tissue scaffold for growing human muscle
Irish soda bread appears to work as a scaffold for growing muscle and bone cells, and could eventually help in producing factory-grown meat Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263638-home-baking-frenzy-inspires-tissue-scaffold-for-growing-human-muscle/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Home baking frenzy inspires tissue scaffold for growing muscle
Irish soda bread appears to work as a scaffold for growing muscle and bone cells from mice, and could eventually help in producing factory-grown meat Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263638-home-baking-frenzy-inspires-tissue-scaffold-for-growing-muscle/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Earth-Size ‘Pi Planet’ Rocks a 3.14-Day Orbit
An anonymous reader shares a report: Everyone’s favorite mathematical constant has received an inadvertent tribute from the universe. A team led by MIT researchers discovered a distant planet that orbits its star every 3.14 days, mirroring the famous first three digits of pi. MIT described the rocky Earth-sized planet K2-315b as “baking hot” and “likely not habitable” in a statement on…
‘Highest temperature on Earth’ recorded
The US National Weather Service has recorded what is likely to be the highest temperature since records began. For those who have been baking in summe… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/338883/highest-temperature-on-earth-recorded…
Tesla Engineer Reinvents Chocolate Chip for Maximum Taste and Melt
“Silicon Valley, long obsessed with computer chips, is now disrupting chocolate ones,” writes the New York Post:
Remy Labesque, a Los-Angeles based industrial engineer working for Elon Musk’s Tesla, has re-engineered the chocolate chip for the optimization-obsessed set. Thirty bucks gets you 17.6 ounces, or about 142, of the expertly forged chocolate geodes, which are molded to “melt at the right rate,”…
Extreme heat from the sun is baking a thin crust on Mercury’s surface
Mercury’s surface should be powdery like Earth’s moon, but the extreme heat it experiences from being close to the sun may be baking it into a thin, hard crust Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250075-extreme-heat-from-the-sun-is-baking-a-thin-crust-on-mercurys-surface/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
15 Organic Homemade Plant Food For Your Homestead
You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive soil fertilizers. There are dozens of homemade plant food recipes and ingredients you can use to boost plant growth and improve soil health. RELATED: Homemade Fertilizer from Compost 15 Simple, Inexpensive Homemade Plant Food Recipes and Ingredients 1. Baking Soda-Ammonia Plant Food Need a quick…Continue Reading
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13 lockdown cooking projects and the science of how they work
While we’re stuck indoors, it’s a great time to get into cooking and baking. Our Science of Cooking series explains how to make foods such as sourdough bread, hand-pulled noodles and kimchi, and the theory behind the recipes Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2243674-13-lockdown-cooking-projects-and-the-science-of-how-they-work/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Why ‘Baking’ Damaged Reel-To-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reel-to-reel tapes are experiencing a resurgence of interest among audio buffs, but they are prone to degradation, which has been a topic of active research for many years. It’s well known that applying heat can often reverse the damage sufficiently to enable playback, usually by baking the tapes in an oven. Now…