Drying drops exhibit a rich phenomenology that depends on the suspended materials, convection and evaporation 1, surface tension and capillary interactions 2, contact line pinning and depinning 3, ...

Christiaan Huygens attributed his 1655 discovery of Saturn’s largest moon Titan partly to “the quality of his telescope and partly to luck.” And now it seems luck has struck again in the latest Titan ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, have shown that droplets of liquid can travel uphill when placed on a vertically vibrating inclined plate. 'In fact, if the plate vibrates at the right ...

Engineers at Yale University have discovered that the stiffness of liquid drops embedded in solids has something in common with Goldilocks: While large drops of liquids are softer than the solid that ...

The fluid dynamical behaviour of liquid drops and bubbles has long fascinated researchers due to its rich interplay between inertia, surface tension and viscous forces. This area of study encompasses ...

New research published in Nature reveals that, when cooled, droplets containing chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform from spheres into complex shapes such as flowers, corals, and fibrous ...

Save your breath: A new way to make bubbles requires only sound waves. Scientists made the bubbles in levitated drops of liquid, held aloft with sound waves. Tweaking the sound waves caused the ...

Physicists have thoroughly investigated the 'coffee ring effect,' the ring-shaped stain of particles left after drops of coffee evaporate. In a article, they have uncovered the complex and remarkably ...