Surrey Physics Blog

The blog about physics at the University of Surrey

Sweet like chocolate

I don’t know whether it is sad or ironic that today I watched “The Great British Menu” while eating a pizza. But anyway one of the chefs was doing “chocolate tempering”, for his dessert. It looked great, the chocolate had a beautiful sheen and he got the highest marks. I want one.


Run, don’t walk, on custard

I enjoyed a rhubarb yoghurt a couple of days ago and I was putting the washed container in the recycling today. Like many yoghurts it was thickened with starch (tapioca starch in this case).  Basically people who make yoghurts add starch and similar things to yoghurt so people think they are getting more than what […]


Scientific research by blog

As this is a blog, maybe a suitable topic for a post is doing scientific research, or slightly more accurately, reviewing scientific research, by blog. In December 2010, NASA-funded scientists published a paper in Science. In an article, a senior NASA administrator said “The definition of life has just expanded,”. The response in blogs of scientists […]


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