"The prevailing opinion is that forest fires can be sparked by intense sunlight focused by water drops on dried-out vegetation." Horvath and colleagues used both experiments and computer modeling ...

For now, it’s enough to have the pleasure of watching the leaps and pirouettes of those dancing drops. Chinese researchers have discovered a new way to make water droplets spin, creating a ...

What happens if you let a drop of water fall gently onto a water-repelling surface? Physicists in France and the Netherlands who tried the experiment were surprised by what they saw. They found that a ...