This wonderful video, “Life at the Interface,” shows how insects who live on the water make use of, or get tripped up by, fluid dynamics. You can see insects shoot up towards the edge of a container ...

The shape of water Likun Zhang (right) and Zhengwu Wang monitor the water passing through a barrier while manipulating the angle of the meniscus. (Courtesy: Clara Turnage/University of Mississippi) ...

A tiny meniscus of water makes it practical to form long graphene nanoribbons less than 10 nanometers wide. New research at Rice University shows how water makes it practical to form long graphene ...

Skimming mechanism of hydrophilic teeth for MP (MP, microplastic) balls / The neighboring concave meniscus induces the Cheerios effect, causing the MP ball to naturally move toward the teeth. The ...

The shape of water can help researchers manipulate how much energy flows through a barrier. Likun Zhang (right) senior scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics, and Zhengwu Wang, a ...