“There is a crack in everything…”

When millimeter-sized drops of water infused with nanoparticles dry, they leave behind complex and beautiful residues. As water continues evaporating, the residues warp, bend, and crack. In this video, researchers set their science to the music of Leonard Cohen. The results resemble blooming flowers and flying water fowl. If you’d like to learn more about the science behind the art, check out the two open-access papers linked below. (Video and image credit: P. Lilin and I. Bischofberger; submitted by Irmgard B.; see also P. Lilin and I. Bischofberger and P. Lilin et al.)

#coffeeRings #cracking #droplets #drying #evaporation #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #granularMaterial #particleSuspension #physics #science

Just after I had stirred my #FlatWhite #Coffee (with #OatMilk ) I noticed that the drips from the spoon were leaving patterns on the surface.

This photo shows three drips from the spoon - the particulates making the colour brown-ish have been displaced into 3 circles. I think there's a lot of #physics here - from how colours appear to how #CoffeeRings form to even an aspect of #CopperMining (sometimes uses foam to raise the ore). What do you think?