Myke Payne🔺

If you love to cook, you need to check this recipe for risotto. Do yourself a favor and make one for your fam. Recipe by chef Gordon Ramsay. Ingredients needed for the risotto: 100g Arborio rice (use top quality like Carnroli or Nano) 25g white onion, finely diced 20g coconut oil 125g fresh garden peas 40g fresh garden peas, pureed 350ml vegetable stock Salt and pepper to taste 1 mint sprig Pea shoots For the mint oil: 1 bunch of mint 400ml extra virgin olive oil Recipe for the mint oil: Wash the bunch of mint and pat dry. Strip the leaves from the stalks and lay out onto an oven tray. Heat at around 80°C for 2-3 hours to dry out the leaves. Add the mint leaves and olive oil to a saucepan. On a very low heat, warm the olive oil for 1 hour until the oil is green. Blitz the oil in a blender and pass through muslin or very fine sieve. You will then have a beautiful clear mint oil, which you can drizzle around the risotto. Recipe for the risotto: Add the coconut oil to a saucepan pan and sweat the onions on a medium-low heat until tender and translucent. Do not allow to colour or brown. Add the Arborio rice to the onion and stir to coat the grains in oil. Add half of the stock to the pan and bring to a gentle simmer. Ensure it retains a constant heat and gently stir as it cooks – it should take around 20 minutes. As the rice absorbs the water and begins to swell, add the remaining liquid gradually as it is absorbed. Season with a little salt and pepper. Meanwhile, in a blender, add 40g of the fresh garden peas with a splash of water and pulse into a puree. When the rice is tender, add the mint sprig. Remove from the heat and gently stir in the pea puree, and fresh peas. Mix through, remove the mint sprig and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve into a bowl and dress with pea shoots, and a drizzle of mint oil.

The Hardest Game

More than a century after discovery, the giant phantom jelly remains one of the deep ocean's least-seen giants.

Scientists just built a gel that heals itself like human skin, and it could change medicine and robotics forever. Human skin does something artificial materials have never been able to copy well: it stays strong and flexible, but it also heals itself when damaged. Every synthetic gel made so far has had to pick one or the other. Strong gels could not repair themselves. Self healing gels were too soft and weak to be useful. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and the University of Bayreuth in Germany just solved that problem. They built a new kind of hydrogel by adding ultra thin clay nanosheets into a densely packed network of polymer chains. The nanosheets line up in an ordered structure, and the polymers get trapped and entangled between them. This gives the material real mechanical strength, while still allowing the polymer chains enough movement to reconnect and repair themselves after damage. The results are striking. The gel repairs 90 percent of damage within 4 hours, and heals completely within 24 hours, roughly matching the timeline of real human skin. The research was published in the journal Nature Materials, led by Dr Hang Zhang, Professor Olli Ikkala, and Professor Josef Breu. The potential applications go far beyond wound care. Scientists say this kind of material could eventually be used in: Synthetic skin for burn victims and reconstructive medicine Smart wound dressings that speed up natural healing Drug delivery systems that release medication in a controlled way Soft robotics, giving robots skin that can take damage and repair itself Flexible sensors and wearable medical devices One of the lead researchers described it best: imagine robots with self healing skin, or synthetic tissue that quietly repairs itself the same way our bodies do. The technology has not been used in real world medical treatment yet. This is still an early stage lab breakthrough. But it is the first time anyone has managed to combine real strength with true self healing in a synthetic gel, and that alone makes it one of the more important materials science discoveries in recent years.

Defeating All Evil

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Now, doctors have another tool. It’s called Optune Pax—a portable, non-invasive device that delivers Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) to the abdomen. Here’s how it works: THE DEVICE GENERATES ELECTRIC FIELDS Alternating electric fields are produced by the portable system. THE FIELDS ARE DELIVERED TO THE TUMOR AREA Insulated arrays placed on the abdomen transmit the fields into the body. CANCER-CELL DIVISION IS DISRUPTED The fields create physical forces that interfere with processes involved in cell division, which can damage rapidly dividing cancer cells. And this isn’t just a laboratory experiment. The FDA approved Optune Pax in February 2026 for adults with locally advanced pancreatic cancer. The device is used together with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel chemotherapy. In the Phase 3 PANOVA-3 trial, adding Tumor Treating Fields to chemotherapy produced a statistically significant improvement in overall survival compared with chemotherapy alone. WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT Many cancer treatments rely on surgery, drugs, or radiation. Optune Pax adds another approach: USING PHYSICS TO ATTACK CANCER. Instead of relying only on a drug to interfere with tumor biology, carefully controlled electric fields are used to disrupt the physical process of cancer-cell division. Important: Optune Pax is not a cure and isn’t suitable for every pancreatic cancer patient. Its FDA-approved use is specifically for adults with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, in combination with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel. Cancer treatment is increasingly combining biology with physics—using electricity, light, sound, and other technologies to attack tumors in new ways.

Excess sugar drives a process called glycation, where glucose and fructose molecules bind to collagen and elastin fibers in the skin. This cross-linking stiffens the fibers and impairs their ability to repair, accelerating visible aging, wrinkles, sagging, and reduced elasticity. The effect is compounded by UV exposure, which speeds glycation further.

Cobra 600 flips air-defense geometry by carrying an interceptor closer to the threat before launch.