The biggest splash

Splash and anti-splash: observation and design.

We experiment with releasing ethanol droplets, from a specific height, onto both flexible and rigid surfaces. The study of the resulting impact and splashing provides new insights into the mechanisms of the short time-scale dynamics. Tuning and even suppressing a splash can be achieved by the use of elastic membranes with controlled tension. Under certain experimental conditions, i.e., droplet ...

The biggest problem in diabetes.

HHMI’s Biggest Experiment

He and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute had invested $500 million to build a research campus with the intention of creating a great engine of biological discovery. They lured top-notch talent, some young and some already established, to partake in what amounted to a magnificent sociological experiment in the way science is done. They took a deep breath and set it all in mot...

Biggest challenges in bioinformatics.

The third Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics (HUB) was held on 18th October 2012, at Heidelberg University, Germany. HUB brought together around 40 bioinformaticians from academia and industry to discuss the 'Biggest Challenges in Bioinformatics' in a 'World Café' style event.

The 10 Biggest Unsolved Problems in Physics

In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin declared: “There is nothing new to discover in physics. All that remains is to more accurately measure its quantities.” In the same year quantum physics was born and three decades later it, and Einstein’s theory of relativity, had completely revolutionized and transformed physics. Today, hardly anyone would dare say that our knowledge of the universe, ...