When you lift a glass of champagne or sparkling wine at midnight tonight, your nose and mouth will be greeted by a plethora of aromas, flavors, and sensations propagated by Keep reading
Month: October 2024
Grow Your Own Snowflakes
If your Christmas holiday was a little too green (like mine was), Science Friday has just the activity for you – grow your own snowflakes! With a few materials you Keep reading
Manipulating Fluids
Combining water-repelling superhydrophobic surfaces with water-loving hydrophilic surfaces allows scientists and engineers to manipulate common fluids. Here a hydrophilic track surrounded by a superhydrophobic background collects and distributes drops of Keep reading
Splashy Heroines
In his latest work, photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz used splashing liquids to create fantastical superheroine costumes. The splashes are all real, composited together in post-production from hundreds of individual splashes. He uses cold Keep reading
Growing Snowflakes
It’s easy to miss the beauty of a snowflake if you don’t take a close look. These tiny crystals form when water freezes onto a dust particle or other nucleation Keep reading
Viscous Droplet Impacts
Viscosity can have a notable effect on droplet impacts. This poster demonstrates with snapshots from three droplet impacts. The blue drops are dyed water, and the red ones are a Keep reading
“Marco Polo” Theme
Netflix’s new original series “Marco Polo” has a distinctive and fluidsy title sequence. The artistic team at the Mill created the effect by painting images in water atop dense paper Keep reading
Propagating Flames
Like many flows, flames can be unstable and undergo a transition from orderly laminar flow to chaotic turbulent flow. The timelapse image above shows the propagation of a flame front Keep reading
Stepping on Lava
What happens when you step on lava? (First off, don’t try this yourself.) Lava is both very dense and very viscous, so, as illustrated in the animation above, it does Keep reading
Simplified Schlieren Set-up
Schlieren photography offers a glimpse into flows that are usually invisible to the human eye. With a relatively simple set-up–a light source, collimating mirror(s), and a razor blade–it becomes possible Keep reading