Our readers agree that the world would be a very different place if water displayed no surface tension, making life on Earth impossible In its most basic form, surface tension is the tendency of ...

Physicists at the University of Liège have succeeded in sculpting the surface of water by exploiting surface tension. Using 3D printing of closely spaced spines, they have combined menisci to create ...

Tiny, soft polymer particles—known as microgels—can help to stabilize extremely thin liquid jets. How this works is the ...

Nanosize water droplets wet surfaces differently than their macroscopic counterparts. A new study by Hajime Tanaka’s group at the University of Tokyo uncovers the microscopic reason behind the ...

Researchers explain a new mechanism for ice formation. Ice can form near the free surface of a water droplet via small precursors with a structure resembling ice 0. These are readily formed by ...