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The wonderful Canary Island Tenerife, captured from above.

Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands archipelago. Although It is quite a popular sun-tourism destination, there is plenty of beautiful, serene nature on the island to explore.

In our video we take you to some of the most spectacular nature hotspots on Tenerife. These include:

Serene home in London | photos by Birgitta Wolfgang

Croissant-ology

Via Physics Today: The fat in a perfect croissant (PDF)

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Croissants are appealingly flaky because of the types of fats, called roll-in fats, that are used to make them.

(a) Roll-in fats respond differently to being deformed than do all-purpose fats. The plots show how internal forces (stress is force per unit area) develop as a fat is periodically deformed (strain is the amplitude of the relative size increase) at an angular frequency of 3.6 radians per second. The sharp buildup and sudden fall of stress in the all-purpose fat signals a failure of internal structure. (Adapted from B. Macias Rodriguez, A. G. Marangoni, Crit. Rev. Food Sci. Nutr., in press, doi:10.1080/10408398.2017.1325835.)

(b) In fats, triglyceride molecules crystallize into nanoscale platelets, such as those shown in this electron micrograph. The platelets represent the smallest scale of three structural levels in a roll-in fat.

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