How Many Slices Does a Mandarin Have? A Three-Year Household Investigation Conducted Under Conditions of Seasonal Citrus Oversupply by David Balmer¹, Gabriel Balmer¹, Siegfried Hapfelmeier², Maria Luisa Balmer²* ¹ Citizen scientists, ² Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Switzerland, *Corresponding author Abstract During the European winter months, mandarins and oranges achieve near-monopolistic status in the […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Blood spatter on high — “Be prepared!” This enduring motto of the Scout movement will come to mind for many readers of a paper called “Bloodstain pattern dynamics in microgravity: Observations of a pilot study in the […]
If you were to design wings for flying fruit, how best to optimize the wing shape? If you don’t already know the answer to that, you might begin your knowledge adventure by reading this study: “Curving to Fly: Synthetic Adaptation Unveils Optimal Flight Performance of Whirling Fruits,” Jean Rabault, Richard A. Fauli, and Andreas Carlson, […]
If you’re trying to make an alcoholic drink with the flavour of passion fruit and grapefruit, an obvious method would be to ferment passion fruit and grapefruit juices. But that’s not the only way. You could, for example, get hold of a fermenting New Zealand Sauvingnon Blanc as a base, and then bubble hydrogen sulfide […]