The Cheerios in your morning cereal clump together with one another and the bowl’s wall due to an attractive force caused by the curvature of their menisci. A recent study Keep reading
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Mermaid Cereal
In the Cheerios effect, floating objects can fall into one another due to capillary attraction — just like Cheerios link up in a cereal bowl. Here researchers play with that Keep reading
A Fractal Raft From a Spinning Top
File this one under Cool Things I Would Have Never Thought Of. In this video, researchers play around with the flow around a spinning top and end up creating a Keep reading
Artificial Microswimmers
Tiny organisms swim through a world much more viscous than ours. To do so, they swim asymmetrically, often using wave-like motions of tiny, hair-like cilia along their bodies. Mimicking this Keep reading
Breaking Up Granular Rafts
Particles at a fluid interface will often gather into a collection known as a granular raft. The geometry of the interface where it meets individual particles, combined with the surface Keep reading
“Focus, Vol. 1”
In “Focus, Vol. 1,” photographer Roman De Giuli follows colorful droplets as they roll along, chase one another, and burst. You may notice that many of the drops seem attracted Keep reading
Collective Motion: Nematodes
We often imagine that collective motion creates an advantage – that the schooling fish and flocks of birds gain something from this behavior – but that’s not always the case. Keep reading
The Cheerios Effect
You’ve probably noticed that cereal clumps together in your breakfast bowl, but you may not have given much thought as to why. This tendency for objects at an interface to Keep reading
A Particle-Filled Splash
A drop of water that impacts a flat post will form a liquid sheet that eventually breaks apart into droplets when surface tension can no longer hold the water together Keep reading