When water drains from the bottom of a vertical tube, it is followed by a thin film of liquid that can adopt complex and beautiful shapes. KAUST researchers have now studied exactly how these "fluted ...

When a solid and a liquid come into contact, charged entities on both sides push one another apart. This phenomenon is known as charge separation, and it creates an electric double layer—a layer each ...

One cloudy day in the early 1830s, Robert Addams, a traveling lecturer in chemistry and natural philosophy, found himself at the Falls of Foyers in Scotland, admiring the water of the River Foyers ...