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.

The surprising behavior of microscopic oil droplets shows that we don't need exotic new particles or interactions to discover beautiful and counter-intuitive physics phenomena.

Towards computing with water droplets: Superhydrophobic droplet logic Date: September 7, 2012 Source: Aalto University Summary: Researchers in Finland have developed a new concept for computing ...

And at their peak, those droplets are spinning at a whopping 7,300 revolutions per minute. So apart from creating a water droplet ballet, scientists have also found a new way to harvest energy.

The droplets include lemon juice, vinegar, strawberry juice, tea, and grapefruit juice, while the solid garnishes are cabanossi with rosemary, cheese with coconut flakes, coffee grains, dried ...

To observe droplet movement, fluorescent molecules were utilized as probes. The captured trajectories revealed an impressive migration rate, with droplets formed on the glass swiftly pumped to the ...