There is a quality of water, or liquids in general, that we often overlook because we’re so large and heavy; It’s called surface tension, and only nature’s smallest creatures could ever possibly ...

Bacteria may be a meat-eating plant’s best friends thanks to their power to reduce the surface tension of water. Armitage seeded tubes of clean water with fluid from the trap pools of pitcher ...

Root pathogens (both bacteria and fungi) can destroy the absorptive surface area in the soil ... Drought also induces embolism because as plants become drier tension in the water column increases.

If an unfortunate insect finds itself trapped inside a Nepenthes pitcher plant its chances of survival are pretty ... making it almost perfectly slippery toward substances of any surface tension,” ...

“We don’t think plants move at all ... expand while the pink inner surfaces don’t. This creates a tension as the outer surface pushes inward. Eventually, the pressure becomes too great ...

Jason Latimer from Impossible Science defies gravity with the surface tension of water. Jason Latimer from Impossible Science, together with Constance Zimmer and her daughter, shows how to defy ...

Prior research has shown that droplets with a surface tension lower than the surface tension of surrounding fluid will spread rather than mixing, a phenomenon known as the Marangoni effect.

There is a quality of water, or liquids in general, that we often overlook because we’re so large and heavy; It’s called surface tension, and only nature’s smallest creatures could ever possibly ...