People have been making bread for approximately 30,000 years—almost since we were still cavemen! Even though we might not have understood what was happening when we first started making bread, there’s actually a ton of science behind how it works. In this home experiment, we’ll bake a ...
Finally, the bread maker bakes the bread, creating a crispy crust and soft, fluffy interior. The Science Behind Bread Rise: Yeast is an essential ingredient in bread making, and its ability to create carbon dioxide is what causes the bread to rise. Yeast feeds on the sugars in the dough,...
This experiment not only allows you to explore the science behind bread fermentation and yeast activation but also provides an opportunity to develop essential kitchen skills and creativity. 11. Edible Water Bottle This experiment not only provides a practical solution to the global plastic pollution p...
“Bread?”“No.” He makes another note. “20 years ago, they would have shot you for making notes like that,” says a woman waiting in line. “No bullets either,” he writes. This joke is only 49 words. But it is indicative of how the Soviet system worked at every scale. This...
Science Facts Behind Butter Making What is the science behind making butter? When shaking the fresh cream, the fat molecules in the cream get shaken out of position and clump together. Eventually, after enough agitation, the fat molecules that are clumped so much forms butter. During this proce...
Popular Science has been demystifying the worlds of science and technology since 1872. We explain the inner workings of the phone in your pocket, explore world-changing innovations, and examine everything from the marvels of deep space to the secret lives of staples like bread. We deliver an ...
The test kitchen at Cook’s Illustrated has been working for more than 20 years to determine what makes the perfect recipe and why, and in The Science of Good Cooking, they’ve put together a list of 50 basic concepts that explain the science behind your cooking that makes recipes work. ...
The fundamental idea behind RNNs is to make use of sequential information. At a given step, the output is dependent on the previous computations. The hidden state can be represented as: ht=f(Whhht−1+Wxhxt)h_t = f(W_{hh} h_{t-1} + W_{xh} x_t)ht=f(Whhht−1...
No Language Left Behind -- Meta’s new model is able to translate between 200 different languages making the internet more accessible Google’s Minerva, Solving Math Problems with AI -- Quantitative reasoning is hard for humans and it is hard for computers. Google’s new model just got astoni...
For my fellow science history nerds out there, we managed to get a behind the scenes tour with thearchivist, looking at equipment, notes and design plans used in the Apollo program to get us to the Moon. We even got to see the slide rule and calculations used by Wernher von Braun to ...