Hatty Willmoth
Writer at Freelance
Journalist @ion_nutrition with mild synaesthesia and deep loathing of swans 🦢
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1 week ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
Archaeologists have discovered that a well-preserved mummy seems to have been air-dried by stuffing the rectum with wood chips, twigs, fabric and zinc chloride. The 280-year-old corpse belonged to an Austrian priest and is the first example archaeologists have found of this bizarre – and apparently successful – mummification method.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
Italian scientists have discovered how to get a perfectly creamy pasta sauce every time, by analysing the physics involved in cooking cacio e pepe. Cacio e pepe – meaning ‘cheese and pepper’ – is an Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino romano cheese and black pepper. That may seem like a simple recipe, but it can easily go wrong. When hot pasta water is mixed with cheese, it can turn into a sticky mess of cheesy clumps in watery pasta, rather than becoming a smooth, creamy sauce.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
A new study offers hope to adults who live in fear of their allergic reactions, as adults with severe peanut allergies could become tolerant in a matter of weeks. Scientists gradually introduced 21 severely allergic adults to peanut products and peanuts in increasing amounts. By the end of the trial, 14 of them were able to tolerate a whole handful of peanuts without an allergic reaction.
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3 weeks ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
A large land bridge formed 20 million years ago that connected continents, shaped climates, divided oceans and changed the course of evolution. That’s according to a recent paper published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. It brings together multiple disciplines – including plate tectonics, evolutionary anthropology and climate studies – to provide what the researchers call a “provocative” summary of current research on the Tethys Seaway closure.
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4 weeks ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
Sunscreen may have been essential to the survival of prehistoric humans at a time when Neanderthals were dying out, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan. European Homo sapiens may have protected themselves from harmful solar radiation using ochre: a natural mineral, known for its rich yellow, red and brown hues, that can act as a sunscreen when applied to the skin.
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I won a prize today! It was the early career prize in the Freelance Journalism Awards 2024, for my article on the Bruderhof community that I wrote for the Independent 🎉 So grateful to the judges for picking my piece, and happy and proud 🥰 Yay!!
So pleased to be published in the Independent!🥰 Read about my stay with the Bruderhof here 👇
Inside a secret Home Counties commune that preaches celibacy and hard labour to Gen Z https://t.co/abFfMO9k9x https://t.co/qUpS1jTyyZ
