Over the past couple decades, microfluidic devices have become a staple of medical and biological diagnostics and analysis. Tests that once required large and specialized equipment can now be completed closer to Keep reading
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The Disappearing Cotton Candy
Moisture is cotton candy’s natural enemy. The spun sugar dissolves incredibly quickly under the influence of even a couple drops of water. Why that’s so is clearer when looking at Keep reading
Dissolving Pills
This short film from Macro Room shows how pills dissolve in timelapse. Dissolution is a complex process driven both by flow and chemical concentration. Any small motion in the water helps erode the Keep reading
The Shaky Life of a Droplet
An evaporating drop of ouzo goes through several stages due to the interactions of oil, alcohol and water. If you turn the situation around by placing a drop of (blue-dyed) Keep reading
Carbonation in Microgravity
Bubbly beverages are popular among humans, but there’s surprising complexity underlying their seemingly simply carbonation, as explored in a new Physics Today article. Most drinks get their bubbles from carbon dioxide, Keep reading
Dissolving Candy
In nature, solid surfaces often evolve over time in conjunction with the flows around them. This is how stalactites, canyons, and hoodoos all form and change over time. Here researchers Keep reading
Scallops and Erosion
Although we often think of solids as immovable in the face of flow, the motion of air and water sculpts many parts of our world. One common pattern, seen both Keep reading
Eroding Candy
When you pop a hard candy in your mouth, you probably don’t give much thought to the fluid dynamics involved in dissolving it. The series above shows a hard candy Keep reading
The Colorful Dissolution of Candies
Many solids can dissolve in liquids like water, and while this is often treated as a matter of chemistry, fluid dynamics can play a role as well. As seen in Keep reading
Dissolving
It looks like the fiery edge of a star’s corona, but this photo actually shows a dissolving droplet. The droplet, shown as the lower dark region in this shadowgraph image, Keep reading