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 […]
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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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In this weeks’s Nature there is an article on X-chromosome silencing. This sounds very technical, and it is, but it has fun consequences, namely tortoiseshell cats (and tortoiseshell-and-white or calico cats, as seen in the picture). You may know that tortoiseshells are almost always females, but you probably don’t know why.
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