What would Christmas be without the unlimited eating? And even though you can't taste it, there's plenty of maths in food. Here's some yummy examples.
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Researchers are asking for a serve of fuzzy logic with their pizza.
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How risky is your daily bacon butty?
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Whenever you smell the lovely smell of fresh coffee or drop a tea bag into hot water you're benefiting from diffusion. Now researchers have finally found experimental confirmation for the most important concept underlying diffusion theory.
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Take a dive into the rather smelly business of digesting food, and how a crazy application of chaos theory shows the best way to digest a medicinal drug.
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More on the fluid mechanics of food travelling through the intestines
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