A critical control point is a step in the process of manufacturing or preparing food in which the right procedure can minimize or remove a potential health hazard such as a food-borne illness. By ...

Yale physicist Helen Caines has arrived at a key juncture in her long campaign to understand the “critical point” and the “strong force” of nuclear matter. In the subatomic realm, the universe’s ...

Researchers in the US and Italy have identified a second critical point in two realistic theoretical models of water. This finding, which draws on state-of-the-art computational methods and supports a ...

In a renewed attempt at a grand unified theory of brain function, physicists now argue that brains optimize performance by staying near — though not exactly at — the critical point between two phases.