With small droplets, gravity usually has little effect compared to surface tension. An evaporating water droplet holds its spherical shape as it evaporates. But the story is different when you Keep reading
Tag: elastocapillarity
All Wound Up
A thin fiber sitting atop a bubble can spontaneously coil around the bubble thanks to elastocapillarity. (This seemingly bizarre behavior is also why wet strands of hair clump together.) Here’s Keep reading
Hair-Washing in Microgravity
I imagine that the most common questions astronauts get come in the form, “How do you do X in space?” In this video, astronaut Karen Nyberg demonstrates how she washes her Keep reading
Wrapping Up
It’s often at the intersection of topics that we can learn something new and fascinating. The latest video from The Lutetium Project shows examples of this at the intersection of Keep reading