With only one ingredient, chips might seem like one of the most basic possible foods.
But these simple slabs of fried potatoes are actually far more complex than you might have thought.
Studies have found that potatoes’ starchy flesh needs to be fried multiple times to get the ideal crunch.
And, for the best possible results, experts say that you should use Russet potatoes cut to exactly 7cm long and 1.2cm wide.
So, as researchers search for new way to
In the 10 years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 suddenly vanished, what exactly happened to the plane has become one of the biggest mysteries of our time.
The ill-fated aircraft vanished on March 8, 2014 after it took off from from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on its way to Beijing.
All 239 people aboard are thought to have died shortly after the plane mysteriously veered westwards off course over the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean.
Although many
From Jurassic Park to Walking with Dinosaurs, blockbuster movies usually depict dinosaurs as terrifying beasts.
But, look back just a few hundred years, and this definitely wasn’t the case.
With only a few fragments of bones to guide them, early palaeontologists arrived at some pretty goofy ideas of what dinosaurs may have looked like.
From clumsy creatures resembling scaly rhinos to today’s fearsome feathered beasts, depictions of dinosaurs have changed a lot since their first discovery.
As we celebrate 200
Not long ago, I randomly opened Vaclav Smil’s recent book “Size: How It Explains the World.” The first paragraph I read, in a chapter about good and bad design, concerned rubber flip-flops, which Smil described as among the world’s most widely owned individual possessions even though “they provide neither good lateral support nor basic vertical stability.” The following paragraph, about furniture, mentioned “the steadily diminishing share of the rich world’s population that grows food, catches fish, cuts wood, mines minerals
One of nuclear fusion’s biggest advances wouldn’t have happened without some impeccable scientific artistry.
In December 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California created fusion reactions that produced an excess of energy — a first. In the experiment, 192 lasers blasted a small chamber, setting off fusion reactions — in which smaller atomic nuclei merge to form larger ones — that released more energy than initially kicked them off (SN: 12/12/22). It’s a milestone known as
One of America’s most famous UFO cases — if not, the most famous — has been thrust back into the spotlight, decades after the Air Force claimed to have solved it.
The Roswell incident of 1947 captured imaginations worldwide when the US Army Air Force issued a press release stating that it had recovered debris from a ‘flying disc.’
But less than 24 hours later, military officials reversed course, announcing that the debris had only come from a crashed weather
Some trilobites had eyes with telescope-like lenses and that were filled with hundreds of miniature eyes.
Brigitte Schoenemann
Trilobite eyes: An impressive feat of early evolution — Science News, February 2, 1974
[Trilobites] possessed the most sophisticated eye lenses ever produced…. The lens structure does not correspond to any found in modern arthropods, as it developed when trilobites were already a separate stock and doomed to extinction…. Though the
Picture a tentacled, many-eyed beast, with a long tongue and gnarly fangs. Atop this writhing abomination sits a single, yellow smiley face. “Trust me,” its placid mug seems to say.
That’s an image sometimes used to represent AI chatbots. The smiley is what stands between the user and the toxic content the system can create.
Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Meta AI have snagged headlines for their ability to answer questions with stunningly humanlike language. These chatbots are
As a nation of tea drinkers, Britons might have good reason to think they know a thing or two about making a good cuppa.
But according to science, we might have been doing it wrong all this time.
As one American scientist’s tea recipe causes national uproar, MailOnline has asked five leading scientists for their tips on making a better brew.
From blasting your tea in the microwave to tricking your brain with a pink mug, some of their unusual
Dragons’ Den pitches from wellness brands have been accused of peddling ‘extravagant claims’ as scientists slammed the show for failing to scrutinise products.
Ear seeds claimed to ‘cure’ ME and a cacao ‘anti-depressant’ are among the products being touted in the new series – and the Mail can reveal next week’s episode will feature a controversial ‘sleep better’ mouth taping device.
But a science group has now accused the show of failing to properly scrutinise ‘extravagant’ claims and has written
