News

The Winter Olympics in Beijing are under way. Dutch athletes are hoping to win many medals, especially in skating events. To improve the performance of

Streamlined control of material deformation 12 January 2022 In a new publication in Nature Communications, a team of physicists from Amsterdam, Leiden and Atlanta show

To be able to experience a wide range of impulses, our senses use ‘logarithmic perception’: a large increase in the impulse only leads to a

To solve practical issues, sometimes all we have to do is study nature. An often quoted example is that of the gecko, a small animal

A fabric’s physical properties, such as its wettability and porosity, affect the dynamics of an impacting droplet. Understanding these effects can help forensic scientists draw