Droplets bouncing off surfaces are an everyday phenomenon, like raindrops bouncing off lotus leaves or water drops sizzling in a hot pan, levitating and sliding around—aka the Leidenfrost effect.

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Consider the nearest water surface: a half-full glass on your desk, a puddle outside your window, or a lake across town. All of these surfaces represent liquid-vapor interfaces, where liquid meets air ...

Physicists have found a way to tweak a basic law of nature, and have reversed the rule that opposites--as in oppositely charged droplets of liquid--attract. Typically, when a drop of liquid with a ...

The Fortnite building mechanic means that players have been falling off high structures for some time, but now you can finally get some XP for doing so. One of the Week 14 challenges for Chapter 3 ...

When a water droplet lands on a surface it can splash, coat the surface cleanly, or in special conditions bounce off like a beach ball Droplets only bounce when the speed of collision with a surface ...

Leidenfrost expert: Felipe Pacheco-Vázquez in his lab at the Autonomous University of Puebla. (Courtesy: BUAP) A new type of Leidenfrost effect that causes droplets of different liquids to bounce off ...

Making droplets levitate can also make them antisocial. When two different liquids are placed on a hot enough surface, they will levitate and bounce off one another, even when they would typically mix ...

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and ...

Researchers can now explain why some water droplets bounce like a beach ball off surfaces, without ever actually touching them. Now the design and engineering of future droplet technologies can be ...