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MIT researchers have designed a 3D-printable “Oreometer” to put an Oreo’s cream filling through a battery of tests to understand what happens when two wafers…
Janus rods with the same surface characteristics except for the geometry of the coating are depicted. The particles assume completely different orientations, implying they also…
The shape of owl wings, which help the animals fly quietly, can inform airfoil designs. Credit: Wang and Liu Serrated edge of owl wings makes…
Associate Professor Jonathan Boreyko and graduate fellow Mojtaba Edalatpour have made a discovery about the properties of water that could provide an exciting addendum to…
A multitude of swirling clouds in Jupiter’s dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Appearing in the scene…
It’s all about momentum — and tiny amounts of liquid right at the spout. Scientists at TU Wien answer an age-old question: How can the…
Visualization of the spread of droplets when coughing. The droplets are color-coded by size. Red = large, green = medium, blue = small, purple =…
Princeton researchers have developed a technique to better understand how polymers flow through small channels under pressure. Credit: David Kelly Crow Princeton researchers have solved…
The mucus layer on the underside of a snail foot is one example of a soft material that yields to stress up to a certain…
[embedded content]Experiments with dummy heads and masks. Credit: TU Wien Tiny droplets loaded with viruses disappear more slowly after exhalation than previous models suggested. Experiments…
Polyacrylonitrile nanofiber mesh before (left), during (middle), and after (right) capturing water aerosols. The mesh becomes coarser as some nanofibers stick together after the captured…
Combustion chamber during combustion oscillations in a model rocket engine. Credit: Hiroshi Gotoda Power source clusters near rocket engine fuel injectors could create combustion oscillations.…
Credit: Leiden University A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories…

Smashing the COVID Curve: Little Differences in Behavior Decide Between Success and Complete Failure
Fluid and turbulence physicist Björn Hof and his team applied the statistical methods to epidemic spreading and discovered surprising features of the infection curves. Credit:…
Illustration shows the reach of breath without a mask and during various mask and face shield evaluations. Credit: Venugopal Arumuru/Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Curbing…
How can clothing of a close-range shooter remain free of bloodstains? In 2009, music producer Phil Spector was convicted for the 2003 murder of actress…
A more accurate image of a coronavirus particle has triangular-shaped spikes. Scientists from OIST and Queen’s University have found that this may aid the success…
An illustration showing quantum vortex tubes undergoing apparent superdiffusion. The white dots represent trapped particle that the researchers tracked to visualize and track the motion…
For the study, the researchers created a computer model of a classroom with students and a teacher, then modeled airflow and disease transmission, and calculated…