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Video showing three different droplets, each with a different electrical charge, impacting an insulated surface. From left to right, the charges are: 0.0 nC, 0.08 nC, and 0.1 nC. The uncharged drop splashes, the low charge drop splashes less, and the final charged droplet spreads without splashing.

Image by Kathryn Cooper.

Espresso falling through an industrial espresso machine.

Cutaway illustration showing a fountain used as a clock, found in the Alhambra.

A Voyager 2 image of the ice giant Uranus.

A vorticity field for Kolmogorov turbulence.

Composite image with CFD of a space capsule entering the atmosphere. The capsule is colored in reds, oranges, and yellows, showing surface temperature. Around it, in grayscale, is the vorticity of the flow field.

Comparison between ice melting with large and small particles.

The spiral-shaped entrance to a puquios chimney, part of a pre-Columbian irrigation system in the Nazca region of Peru.

Aerial view looking down on two rows containing four cooling towers each, mid-demolition. Smoke and dust billow out from the base of each tower.

A black and white video of three coronal mass ejections colliding in the Sun's solar wind.

Bubbles of methane frozen under the surface of Lake Baikal.

An astronuat photo of a red sprite -- a plasma outburst from a thundercloud -- as viewed from orbit.

A cornflower root growing.

Sunflower plants follow the sun during the day and reset overnight.

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