Why does water have such an unusually high surface tension?

This study links the effect to molecular-scale interactions and hydrogen-bond dynamics, offering new insight into one of water’s most fundamental properties.

🔗 https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/38/4/042007/3386944/Molecular-driven-extreme-surface-tension-of-water?redirectedFrom=fulltext

#SurfaceTension #Water #MolecularPhysics #FluidDynamics #interfaces

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It’s Nice That: Plug in! Michael Romanowicz’s Outlet Atlas is a gorgeously designed guide to power adapters and outlet types. “If your special interest is outlet types and power adapters, then boy do we have the online archive for you. Lovingly created by a designer who was frustrated with boring SEO-optimised websites whilst travelling, this community-based website seeks to make a guide that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/its-nice-that-plug-in-michael-romanowiczs-outlet-atlas-is-a-gorgeously-designed-guide-to-power-adapters-and-outlet-types/
It’s Nice That: Plug in! Michael Romanowicz’s Outlet Atlas is a gorgeously designed guide to power adapters and outlet types

It’s Nice That: Plug in! Michael Romanowicz’s Outlet Atlas is a gorgeously designed guide to power adapters and outlet types. “If your special interest is outlet types and power adapter…

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A hiperconectividade criou um tipo estranho de presença coletiva:
milhões vivendo o mesmo instante
sem necessariamente compartilharem a mesma experiência.

#mediação #interfaces

Há milhões assistindo aos mesmos jogos
e cada um acreditando viver uma experiência individual.

#interfaces #culturaDigital

What if the most important product decisions in #AI systems no longer live in #interfaces, #PRDs, or #journeymaps?

They now live inside routing logic, memory systems, escalation policies, and #orchestration pipelines. Are product teams reviewing those layers?

#AgenticAI #ArtificialIntelligence

https://www.designative.info/2026/05/13/what-designers-need-to-know-about-ai-orchestration/

What Designers Need to Know About AI Orchestration » { design@tive } information design

In agentic systems, AI orchestration quietly becomes the new layer where product behavior is defined.

{ design@tive } information design
Thinking Machines Lab is building interactivity into model architecture itself—200ms response chunks across audio, video, text. The shift: from chat interfaces wrapping static models to systems that listen, interrupt, and correct in real time. This moves the competitive moat from UI to fundamental design. https://www.implicator.ai/models-start-listening-microsoft-takes-the-stand-hackers-get-faster/ #ai #ml #interfaces
Mira Murati; Nadella; AI Zero-Days

Thinking Machines pushes real-time interaction, Nadella testifies in the OpenAI trial, and Google traces AI-assisted zero-day work.

Implicator.ai

Penpot demuestra que el #DiseñoWeb también puede ser abierto 🖥️

Permite crear #interfaces, prototipos y sistemas de diseño desde el #navegador.

Ideal para colaborar en equipo sin depender por completo de plataformas cerradas.

➡️ https://www.softandapps.info/2026/05/08/diseno-de-interfaces-penpot-open-source/

What looks like a simple bubble can become a delivery system. New materials store therapeutic gases and release them through controlled interfacial dynamics.

🔗 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef9968

#Fluids #Interfaces #SoftMatter #DrugDelivery #Physics

Recently, I was thinking about interfaces of programs and websites, and I realised that I have a very particular aesthetic that i prefer. I was wondering if anyone shares this opinion. In Firefox, the program layout would be called Pre-Australis, but I'm not sure of a more standard term. In websites, it may just be semantic html.

Programs
1.
Menus accessible via the alt key, where each one is navigated with the up and down arrows, and each menu is entered with the left and right arrows.
2.
Okay, cancel, and apply buttons are present.
3.
No ribbons.
I'm not really going to discuss phone applications, because they are entirely different. But I will say that I don't like how many lack keyboard support and involve scrolling. I don't see how that could possibly be better and more efficient than immediately going to the top or bottom of a list, for example, with Windows.

Websites
1.
No hamburger menus. Each section is accessed via a link. All combo boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. are clearly labelled.
2.
No page refreshes, unless loading a new page or prompted by the user i.e. with f5.
3.
No clutter on the page i.e. advertisements in the middle of news articles.
4.
If such things exist, then there should be a text-only, or basic html version of the site.
5.
Downloadable content is in txt, html, doc, or rtf, not pdf, docx, etc.
6.
If captchas are used, they should have good audio replacements.

I have no idea why so many programmers aren't design things with normal menus these days. Even Windows is doing this. It's one of the many reasons I switched from 11 back to 7 for daily use. Website developers also frustrate me. Why must everything be in these ridiculous hamburger menus? What happened to normal links? I even see this on sites for the blind!

#accessibility #coding #interfaces #menus #programming #programs #websites