Defining sponge cake can get a little — forgive us — spongy. Never up for debate is the centrality of egg, sugar, and flour. It's also, as made clear by the name, meant to be light and airy.

This classic German dessert layers light chocolate sponge with kirsch-soaked cherries and whipped cream for a not-too-sweet showstopper of a cake. Tempered chocolate shards give it dramatic flair ...

Relatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years or more, long before the first plants took to land. Their simplicity has led scientists to suggest ...

Smart, touchless faucets have won designers’ hearts for combining practicality with sleek aesthetics. Being able to turn ...

Sponge material shows an extremely large dielectric constant, enabling a wide range variable capacitor when clamped between two metal plates and compressed. Capacitors in the range of 100nF can be ...

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Woodworking jigs ensure that cuts are straight, holes are plumb and parts are square—among many other things. And jigs are worth the time it takes to make them because you’ll use them over and ...

Here, inspired by the microstructure of tree xylem, we report a cellulose–polyurethane sponge (CP-Sponge) with wood-like pores and underoil superhydrophilicity using directional freeze-casting. The CP ...

Unfortunately, these approaches require expensive specialized equipment. Considering this, Quinn and his colleagues at Takara Bio developed the Lenti-X™ Transduction Sponge, an alginate sponge that ...