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A cornstarch-water droplet can behave like a liquid and a solid at the same time, depending on how it is stressed.
High-speed imaging reveals how these “oobleck” drops reshape on impact, highlighting the surprising physics of shear-thickening fluids.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01109-3
#FluidDynamics #SoftMatter #Rheology #ComplexFluids #physics
💡 How do you turn months of #research into a clear, engaging #ScientificPoster?
At the Physics PhD Day at @UniversitedeLiege 2 #PhDstudents from #LeidenForce shared their first poster experience.
➡️ https://www.leidenforce.eu/scientific-poster-phd-communication-news
Presenting research in the form of a scientific poster may seem straightforward at first glance. One page, a few figures, a title. In reality, the exercise is far more demanding. It requires a set of skills quite different from those needed to write a paper or deliver an oral presentation. This format is widely used in academic conferences and PhD training as a key tool for scientific communication... Read more
AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
When two cavitation bubbles form near a particle in sequence, their collapse is no longer independent. The second bubble reshapes the jet from the first, creating regimes of deflection, amplification or damping depending on timing.
How can research findings be made more durable over time?
A Nature analysis highlights key strategies to improve reproducibility, replicability, and robustness across the social and behavioural sciences.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00965-3
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #Replication #ResearchIntegrity #metascience
What looks like a simple bubble can become a delivery system. New materials store therapeutic gases and release them through controlled interfacial dynamics.
Sensors and seismic data now reveal deep magma networks linking volcanoes across kilometers.
These connections may help improve forecasts of future eruptions.
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-coupled-volcanoes-talk-these-researchers-listen-20260327/
#Volcanoes #Geophysics #MachineLearning #EarthScience #EruptionForecasting
Liquids are usually expected to flow continuously. But under strong extensional stress, viscosity alone can trigger sudden, fracture-like failure.
Could this help control flows in hydraulics, 3D printing, or even blood vessels?
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-03-liquids-fracture-solids.html
#FluidMechanics #Rheology #SoftMatter #FracturePhysics #Biofluidics
In a development that could shift our basic understanding of fluid mechanics, researchers from Drexel University have reported that, given the right circumstances, it is possible to induce a simple liquid to fracture like a solid object. Recently published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the research shows how viscous liquids can suddenly break if stretched with enough force.
Proposed US budget cuts could slash funding for major science agencies by up to 50%, while limiting public funds for journal subscriptions and publishing fees.
What does this mean for the future of research?
Plant-based milks aren’t simple liquids. Most behave as non-Newtonian fluids, flowing more easily under stress due to tiny amounts of added gums.
A reminder that everyday fluids can hide complex physics.
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