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A well-known effect in breakfast cereal helps physicists understand the universe

Have you ever noticed how the last bits of cereal in the bowl always seem to cling to one another, making it easy to spoon up the remaining stragglers? Physicists have -- and they've given it a name: the "Cheerios ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (28) | comments 16 | with audio podcast




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When worms stick together and swim on thin water, what happens and why does it matter?

Nematodes, microscopic worms, are making engineers look twice at their ability to exhibit the "Cheerios effect" when they move in a collective motion.

Physics / Soft Matter

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Humans Trading Short-Term Food For Long-Term Environmental Losses

Your breakfast this morning came at a cost not only to your wallet. Your bowl of Cheerios and cup of coffee and all the other meals for the other 6 billion people in our world cost the Earth a bit of its water, a bit of its ...

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created Jul 25, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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