How much time will a dripped drop of coffee be a drop, before it loses its full-bodied nature? This study sniffs into the question: “On the Lifetime of a Coffee Drop,” Paul Bienvenu, Haruka Hitomi, and David Quéré, Soft Matter, epub 2026. The authors, at PSL Research University, ESPCI-Paris, France, report: As we know, a […]
If your idea of “coffee for the road” is limited to drinking coffee while you are driving a car on a road, this research study can expand your mental horizon: “Rheology and microstructure effects of waste spent coffee grounds in modifying asphalt binder,” Mingjun Xie, Linglin Xu, Kai Wu, Yutong Wen, Hongmi Jiang, and Zhengwu […]
Many physicists like to drink coffee. Some of them like to write about coffee. Some of them like to write about things they notice while they look at a coffee cup. Here’s a new example of one or more of those things: “Science of a coffee cup: a physicist walks into a bar…,” Aleksi Bossart, […]
Humanity’s persistent wondering about how and whether drinking coffee might affect the wellbeing of mice led to this new study done in Portugal: “Impact of Coffee Intake on Measures of Wellbeing in Mice,” Nuno J. Machado, Ana Paula Ardais, Ana Nunes, Eszter C. Szabó, Vasco Silveirinha,Henrique B. Silva, Manuella P. Kaster, and Rodrigo A. Cunha, […]