Researchers from the UvA-Institute of Physics and ENS de Lyon have discovered how to design materials that necessarily have a point or line where the
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Deliquescence is an important phenomenon that occurs when a salt absorbs water vapor and slowly dissolves. Investigating the behavior of the salt sodium sulfate decahydrate
The surface of Teflon – the non-stick coating in your pan – is incredibly slippery. Thanks to research carried out at the Van der Waals-Zeeman
Winter is coming to an end; the last nights of below zero temperatures are here. In the morning, one still spots the occasional icicle on
Is the inside of a plant cell more like a liquid or a solid? While this may sound like an odd question, research carried out
The new research article by Bastiaan Veltkamp, Krassimir Velikov and Daniel Bonn appears on the cover of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. The researchers investigated
Given a 3D piece of origami, can you flatten it without damaging it? Just by looking at the design, the answer is hard to predict,
Pour coffee into a mug and you might notice that the water cascading from the jug resembles droplets linked in a chain. Such oscillating “waterfalls”
PhD student Nico Schramma wins the first price of the BioPM Posterawards during the NWO Biophysics conference in Veldhoven with his poster entitled “Collective chloroplast
The physics of collective motion has been well-studied for the last thirty years. Until now, scientists have focused on the study of ‘fluid’ movements, such