If you savor jargon-enriched descriptions of iffy much-touted computer-involved approaches to using small amounts of data about things that are difficult to measure and interpret, this study may be of special interest: “AI-driven prediction of consumer liking of coffee from sensory data,” Michael Gunning, Maite Pilar Serantes Laforgue, Jean-Xavier Guinard, and Ilias Tagkopoulos, npc Science […]
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, […]