Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration
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How Much Does a Single Cell Weigh? The Brilliant Physics Trick of Weighing Something Less Than a Trillionth of a Gram
AI-generated image. Credit: Midjourney/ZME Science. How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to…
Researchers Reveal How Rogue Waves Really Form
For centuries, sailors spoke of colossal rogue waves that appeared without warning, dismissed by many as mere maritime…
Experimental confirmation of secondary flows within granular media
Experimental setup The experimental flume is divided into three sections: a reservoir to supply incoming grains, the flow…
Scientists Crack the Code of China’s Mysterious “Matrix Tide”
On China’s Qiantang River, witnesses recently observed an extraordinary “matrix tide,” where colliding tidal bores formed a grid…
Century-old turbulence theory confirmed in bubble swarm experiments
An international team of scientists has successfully shown that swarms of rising bubbles create turbulence that behaves exactly…
Structure and flow of low-dimensional water
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Stable singular fractional skyrmion spin texture from the quantum Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
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Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection
The 3D helical flux ropes in VEST Two essential magnetic field components, the poloidal and toroidal fields, are…