Modeling the behavior of liquids is important for a wide range of applications, from industrial processes and medical devices to computer graphics and visual simulations. However, despite many years ...

At some point, most people have found themselves holding a tilted carton of milk or bottle of cooking oil, patiently waiting for the last drops to drip out. Now, physicists at Brown University have ...

Physicists surprised to find that in specially coated tubes, the more viscous a liquid is, the faster it flows. It's widely known that thick, viscous liquids -- like honey -- flow more slowly than low ...

Honey is already a pretty thick liquid, but let it begin to crystalize and it can become downright clumpy. The sugar crystals in suspension seem to increase its viscosity. This phenomenon occurs ...

From cars on a highway to a viscous fluid like oil, our understanding of electron behaviour is being changed by new research. In high school science class, we learned that plugging a cable into an ...

Conventional wisdom holds that an electric current never returns to its source nor follows a circular path. Instead, it flows from one electrode to another following a local electric field, obeying ...

When two fluids don't mix well, they sometimes form strange patterns called "viscous fingering," or Saffman-Taylor instability. Studying these patterns can help scientists understand how to design ...

Molecular assays necessitate accurate pipetting reagents and samples with a diverse set of properties — including viscous samples that can clog tips, distribute unevenly, and complicate ...

For years, environmentally acceptable lubricants (EALs) were seen as niche solutions, limited to lighter-duty applications. But thanks to advances in synthetic renewable […] ...