Of all the amazing breakthroughs we don't quite appreciate properly, freezing food is near the top. Frozen food brands have a generally terrible reputation, with the collective lingering memory of ...

When you splurge on a cocktail in a bar, the drink often comes with a slab of aesthetically pleasing, perfectly clear ice.

Freezing your bread and then toasting it can boost its resistant starch, which acts like fiber in your gut. Eating bread that ...

It took a YouTube video, a walk-in freezer kept at negative 20 degrees Celsius, and some very cold-tolerant engineering students for researchers to finally figure out why freezing soap bubbles ...

A viral social media trend suggests freezing bread before consumption can significantly enhance its health benefits. Scientific studies indicate that freezing and toasting bread converts carbohydrates ...

A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes. A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it ...

We say “don’t freeze to death” when people head out into real cold. And that’s a good idea. But we’re also captivated by the power of “frozen.” Frogs frozen stiff all winter that hop off, fresh and ...

The announcement that Apple and Facebook will cover the steep cost of egg freezing for their employees has many people talking about the risks and benefits of the procedure. Last week, Facebook said ...

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated preserving frozen animal cells without a cryoprotectant agent, relying instead on ultrarapid cooling. A team of Japanese researchers has -- for the first time -- ...

Please give an overview of osmometry in general. Osmometry is a method to determine a sample´s osmolality. This is the total number of osmotically active particles solved in a solution. These ...

A city in Japan has announced that it will pay a large part of the cost of egg freezing for women who live there, as part of a program aimed at raising the country's low birth rate. Egg freezing is ...

For many women balancing careers, relationships and long-term life plans, egg freezing has become a way to protect future fertility—but medical science shows that preparation before the procedure can ...