When an egg is heated, its proteins unfold and form bonds with each other – an X-ray analysis has shown this happening on the micrometre scale over the first 160 seconds of cooking Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270129-x-raying-eggs-while-they-cook-reveals-how-egg-white-becomes-solid/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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The Mars Perseverance Rover’s Parachute Contained a Secret Message
“The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message,” reports the Associated Press — thanks to the rover’s puzzle-loving systems engineer Ian Clark. “During a live stream discussing the landing, one Nasa commentator said: ‘Sometimes we leave messages in our work for others to find. So we invite you all to give it a…
What is the Milky Way?
When someone says “Milky Way,” do you think of the starry pathway across our sky, or of the great pinwheel-shaped galaxy in space? Both are correct! Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-the-milky-way-galaxy…
How to make a marvellously smooth mayonnaise
From eggs to vegan mashed chickpeas, making great mayonnaise means grappling with the complex chemistry of emulsions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933213-100-how-to-make-a-marvellously-smooth-mayonnaise/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Monarch butterflies are in trouble: Here’s how to help in your own yard
The 2020 annual count of monarch butterflies in the western United States found shockingly few, confirming fears that the insect is on the brink of extinction. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/monarch-butterflies-of-western-us-nearing-extinction-what-you-can-do…
Spinning egg yolks hint at how concussions warp the brain
Scientists used chicken eggs as a model for the human skull and brain. Source: https://www.livescience.com/egg-yolk-concussion-study.html
Embryos from the last two northern white rhinos set to be implanted
Fertilised eggs from northern white rhinos are set to be implanted in surrogates this year, with the hope of producing offspring Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264951-embryos-from-the-last-two-northern-white-rhinos-set-to-be-implanted/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Embryos set to be implanted in the last two northern white rhinos
Fertilised eggs are set to be implanted in the two remaining northern white rhinos this year, with the hope of producing offspring Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264951-embryos-set-to-be-implanted-in-the-last-two-northern-white-rhinos/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Megalodon shark’s enormous babies ate their siblings in the womb
Megalodons – the extinct giant sharks that lived in most of Earth’s oceans about 3 million years ago – gave birth to babies that were larger than adult humans, scientists say. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/megalodon-extinct-giant-shark-enormous-babies…
Megalodon sharks grew 2 metres long in the uterus by eating eggs
Ancient megalodon sharks may have been at least 2 metres long at birth – and they might have grown so large by eating unhatched eggs in the uterus Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264340-megalodon-sharks-grew-2-metres-long-in-the-uterus-by-eating-eggs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…