Blood droplets on inclined surfaces reveal new cracking patterns(phys.org) Dried deposit of a 5 μL blood droplet on a glass surface inclined at 35° to the horizontal, showing differential cracking between the advancing (downhill) and receding (uphill) fronts. The arrow indicates the direction of gravitational acceleration (g). Credit: Bibek Kumar, Sangamitro Chatterjee, Amit Agrawal, Rajneesh Bhardwaj
New technique generates topological structures with gravity water waves(phys.org) A team of physicists at Fudan University, working with colleagues from Henan University, both in China, and from Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore and Donostia International Physics Center, in Spain, has developed a way to generate topological structures in surface water using gravity water waves.