In honor of astronaut Don Pettit’s launch to the International Space Station (and in the hope that he’ll do more neat microgravity fluids demonstrations while in space!), here’s a look Keep reading
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The Barus Effect
Non-Newtonian fluids are full of all kinds of unusual behaviors. Here a highly viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluid exhibits the Barus effect, in which extruding the fluid causes the falling jet to Keep reading