Focus poster | RSS Feed rss feedRSS info

Squirting Water without a Gun

13 July 2009
Focused vibrations can cause a liquid drop on a surface to erupt into a vertical jet, a phenomenon that may lead to improved biomedical devices and inkjet printers.
article link PRL (10 July 2009)
article link videos
droplet forms a jet

Mix Master Magnets

7 July 2009
A tilted, rotating magnetic field causes magnetizable beads in a fluid to assemble into chains that efficiently stir the mixture--a scheme that might be used in chemical processing of tiny volumes.
article link PRE (July 2009)
article link videos

Thunderhead Accelerator

30 June 2009
Gamma rays and energetic electrons detected on a Japanese mountaintop confirm that thunderstorms are efficient electron accelerators.
article link PRL (26 June 2009)
thunderstorm
« first‹ previous…34567891011…next ›last »

Click on APS Article to see the research paper described in the story.