The property of water that enables a bug to skim the surface of a pond or keeps a carefully placed paperclip floating on the top of a cup of water is known as surface tension. Understanding the ...

Propelled by chemical changes in surface tension, microrobots surfing across fluid interfaces lead researchers to new ideas. Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you’re likely to notice ...

EPFL researchers have discovered that symmetry in the human body is influenced by surface tension, the same mechanical phenomenon that allows lightweight insects to walk on water. A paper discussing ...

Learn about surface tension with Ms. Cerrato from Asheville, NC. Learn about surface tension with Ms. Cerrato from Asheville, NC. Rootle and PBS North Carolina are proud to bring you Teacher Time, a ...

A mechanism arising from liquid wetting can cause a folded region in a soft solid to remain stuck to itself at the microscale, resulting in scars on the material surface that can guide its ...

A model used to explain the wetting of drops can also describe cell migration driven by variations in a surface’s stiffness, a finding that could help in understanding how cancers grow.