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 […]
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A Physicist Ponders a Coffee Cup
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, […]
Coffee and the Wellbeing of Mice
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, […]
Cat/Dog ownership, Measuring sexual satisfaction, Coffee and kidneys, Coffee vs. covid
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Comparatively: People who own dogs or cats — Leah Michelle Baines and Jessica Lee Oliva at James Cook University in Australia say they have discovered that people who own dogs tend to be more resilient than those […]



