The next time you’re in the shower, try pouring a steady stream of shampoo into an open, flattened palm. See how the thread loops and buckles as it comes into contact with your hand? Physicists who ...
In fluid dynamics, hard science often comes with dazzling aesthetic beauty – a fact the American Physical Society highlights annually with a photo/video contest. Here are this year's winners – equal ...
In a basement laboratory at Haverford College, Monica Kishore and Peter J.J. O’Malley, two undergraduates, have hit a snag in a fluid-dynamics experiment they’re conducting. The two physics majors are ...
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Ball bearings unlock microgravity secrets for space and Earth
Even the most mundane tools may bring forth complex truths in microgravity. On October 20, 2025, a set of small metal ball ...
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio services the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) on the International Space Station, designed, built and tested by Purdue and NASA’s Glenn Research Center. While ...
Studies explore fluids in pancakes, beer, and the kitchen sink. Mechanical engineer Roberto Zenit spent the summer of 2019 trying to solve a problem that now plagues science departments around the ...
The University of Colorado’s Department of Applied Mathematics (APPM) is seeking to fill a postdoctoral research instructorship position to investigate the dynamics of doubly-diffusive systems with a ...
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