To Merge, Drops Must Separate
N. Bremond/LCMD-ESPCI
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024501 (2008)
A pair of colliding water droplets merges on the rebound, rather than when they’re squeezing against each other. The results should improve understanding of the separation process of oil-water mixtures important in industry. Read more…
The newest issue of Engineering & Science is out. It commemorates the U.S.’s answer to Sputnik, Explorer 1, and the subsequent 50 years of robotic exploration of the universe.
I have two features on the Voyager program (a.k.a. the mission that keeps going and going) and on the Genesis mission (a.k.a the mission that went “splat.”), [...]
