New 'whipping jet' sprayer controls how aerosols move
Aerosols are tiny particles that can have a significant impact on Earth's climate and human health.
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Artificial stomach reveals fluid dynamics of food digestion
In efforts to fight obesity and enhance drug absorption, scientists have extensively studied how gastric juices in the stomach break down ingested food and other substances. However, less is known about how the complex flow ...
Soft Matter
Aug 3, 2021
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Expanding on the fundamental principles of liquid movement
From the rain drops rolling down your window, to the fluid running through a COVID rapid test, we cannot go a day without observing the world of fluid dynamics. Naturally, how liquids traverse across, and through, surfaces ...
Soft Matter
May 20, 2024
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Bursting a bubble? Accepted theory explaining frequent eruptions at Italy's volcano called into question
Understanding the processes that cause volcanic eruptions can help scientists predict how often and how violently a volcano will erupt. Although scientists have a general idea of how these processes work — the melting of ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2010
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Reverse engineering mysterious 500-million-year-old fossils that confound our tree of life
Paleontologists like us are used to working with fossils that would seem bizarre to many biologists accustomed to living creatures. And as we go farther back in Earth's history, the fossils start to look even weirder. They ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 21, 2017
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Project aims to tame noise from supersonic military jets with 'swirl' technology
It's cliché to describe something very noisy as "louder than a jet engine." But supersonic jet engines, like those powering fighters flown by the U.S. military, are so much louder than regular jet engines that scientists ...
General Physics
Mar 20, 2019
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Squid-inspired robots might have environmental, propulsion applications
Inspired by the unique and efficient swimming strategy of cephalopods, scientists developed an aquatic robot that mimics their form of propulsion.
General Physics
Oct 1, 2019
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Cloud simulations get a dose of realism
A cloud simulation that captures the development and evolution of clouds based on atmospheric physical processes is more accurate than other models.
Environment
Feb 15, 2021
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Daring underwater mission reveals how deep ocean floor currents can travel thousands of kilometres
An international team of scientists, including Dr. Esther Sumner from Ocean and Earth Science and Prof Stephen Darby from Geography and Environmental Sciences, has discovered how giant density-driven submarine flows are able ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2019
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Eccentric fractional skyrmion discovered in numerical simulations of ultra-cold superfluids
A scientist at Osaka City University has discovered skyrmions with half-integer topological numbers in a ferromagnetic superfluid.
Soft Matter
Feb 16, 2022
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