On January 15, 1919, 21 people were killed in the Great Boston Molasses Flood. Over two million gallons of molasses burst out of a defective tank and traveled in a wave estimated to be between 15 and 30 feet tall. That a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/12/01/The-Sticky-Science-Behind-the-Deadly-Boston-Molasses-Disaster/At first glance, you might think this water is fro... ...ining a pool. This is called laminar flow, when a fluid moves at a slow speed, under the consistent press...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/10/01/An-Interesting-Stream-of-Water/The gallon jug of milk sits at the perfect spot beneath the water tap. As the water hits the cap, it flows over it in a perfect bowl shape, missing the rest of the jug completely.It's beautiful.I should spend the rest of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/02/This-Gallon-of-Milk-Has-a-Forcefield/[http://youtu.be/pnbJEg9r1o8] (YouTube link)Physic... ...; but she’s absolutely right. I had no idea fluids would move that way, and when she added food colo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/09/Crazy-Pool-Vortex/If you walk around with a glass of beer and a glass of coffee, you're more likely to spill your coffee than you beer. Why? 4 physicists think that they have an answer. Alban Sauret, Francois Boulogne, Jean Cappello, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/22/Why-Is-Coffee-More-Likely-to-Spill-Than-Beer/The photos above show how a drop of water... ...of Physics' (AIP) journal Physics of Fluids . The approximately 4-millimeter diameter droplets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/09/This-is-How-a-Drop-of-Water-Freezes/This one is pretty nifty: Physicist Jean Rajchenbach and colleagues at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France created star-shaped sizes by shaking a dish of silicone oil. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/08/Star-Shaped-Waves/At what point does a drop of fluid pinch off into two droplets? University... ...o of such an event: How does one fluid body become two? At what point do the two separat... ...looks like. This image, titled “Two- Fluid Snap Off” was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/18/Two-Fluid-Snap-Off/Scientists are concerned about spilled coffee, bec... ...eriments after noticing coffee being sloshed at a fluid dynamics conference (of all places). Back at the lab, Kre... ...on the mug recorded the instant of spillage. A fluid 's back-and-forth movement has a certain natural f... ...ls the sophisticate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/06/the-physics-of-spilled-coffee/(YouTube link) Collisions of liquid droplets... ...ube link) Collisions of liquid droplets create fluid sculptures that can be appreciated only when the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/11/photography-of-liquid-droplet-collisions/
