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...participants at Kurti's annual food-science conference and rang Peter Barham, a physicist at the University of Bristol. "The answer is that green beans don't need salted water," says Barham. "Heston had figured this out, but he didn't have the confidence he has now. Having a scientist tell him made...
...connections between them, Blumenthal was freed to go off on the creative jags he calls "flavor pairings." White chocolate and caviar, foie gras and jasmine, asparagus and licorice all have molecular commonalities that keep them from clashing and, when properly paired, can lead to electric new tastes. Any food scientist knows that mustard and red cabbage contain mustard oil, but it was Blumenthal who put in the endless hours that led to Pommery-mustard ice cream in red-cabbage gazpacho...
Irrational fear, paranoia and apocalyptic statements have abounded. More than one normally understated scientist has termed AIDS "the disease of the century." Others have, in the tradition of divine justification, viewed it as God's revenge on sodomites and junkies. There have been far more pervasive epidemics, certainly. In 1918 and '19, Spanish flu killed more than 500,000 Americans and ultimately 20 million worldwide. A million Russians may have died of cholera in 1848 alone. But during these scourges there were always the possibility and hope that the fever would lift, strength would return, and life would...
...scientists and two crew members from the parent research vessel Seward Johnson took turns making the twice-daily three-hour dives in the Sea-Link. Originally built for ocean submersion, the craft had to be packed with a special foam embedded with air-filled glass bubbles to provide the greater buoyancy needed in less dense fresh water. The Sea-Link looks more like an underwater helicopter than a submarine. It has a bubble-like cockpit that seats the pilot and a scientist, and its nine reversible thrusters allow it to move in any direction or hover in place. Cameras...
NASA officials, with their normal tumble of superlatives, deemed the mission a "great success." Said the chief mission scientist, Eugene Urban: "Scientists will be busy for years working with these data." Yet a few gremlins still lurk. Three times in the past year, the launch procedures have resulted in near disaster. And though Discovery waits eagerly on deck, ready for a late August launch, NASA remains way behind schedule. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center