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  • Letter |

    Droplets of mixed water and propylene glycol deposited on clean glass exhibit a contact angle but do not suffer from contact line pinning; their motion can be controlled by the vapour emitted from neighbouring droplets to create a variety of autonomous fluidic machines with integrated sensing and motility capabilities.

    • N. J. Cira
    • , A. Benusiglio
    •  & M. Prakash

  • News & Views |

    A method has been developed for preparing a variety of potentially useful spherical particles, ranging from several nanometres to millimetres in diameter. It relies on the same fluid instability that causes taps to drip. See Letter p.463

    • Ali Passian
    •  & Thomas Thundat

  • Letter |

    The parameters critical in determining the behaviour of a fibrous medium wetted with a single liquid drop are identified as fibre flexibility, fibre geometry and drop volume.

    • C. Duprat
    • , S. Protière
    •  & H. A. Stone

  • News & Views |

    The well-known boundaries of coffee stains are caused by the outward flow of particles suspended in the liquid. Experiments show that ellipsoidal particles can prevent the formation of such boundaries. See Letter p.308

    • Jan Vermant

  • News & Views |

    A long-standing controversy about whether the motions within a typical astrophysical disk of gas are stable or unstable has resurfaced. The answer has profound significance for our understanding of how stars and planets form.

    • Steven A. Balbus

  • Letter |

    When a bubble on a liquid–gas or solid–gas interface ruptures, the general expectation is that the bubble vanishes. Here, it is shown that in many cases interfacial bubbles do not simply vanish when they rupture, but rather create numerous small bubbles via unexpected folding of the ruptured bubble as it retracts. The process may increase the efficiency of rupture-induced aerosol dispersal.

    • James C. Bird
    • , Riëlle de Ruiter
    •  & Howard A. Stone

  • News & Views |

    The finding that the normal phase of an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms in the strongly interacting regime is close to a Fermi liquid isn't quite what theorists expected for these systems.

    • Yong-il Shin

  • Letter |

    The Southern Ocean is potentially a substantial sink of anthropogenic carbon dioxide; however, the regulation of this carbon sink by the wind-driven Ekman flow, mesoscale eddies and their interaction is under debate. Here, a high-resolution ocean circulation and carbon cycle model is used to study intra-annual variability in anthropogenic carbon dioxide over a two-year time period; the Ekman flow is found to be the primary mechanism of anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport across the Antarctic polar front.

    • T. Ito
    • , M. Woloszyn
    •  & M. Mazloff

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