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Drying Out Microbe-Filled Droplets

Ocean sprays, coughs, and sneezes are just a few of the ways that droplets full of bacteria and salt can get aloft on a breeze. How do these bacteria stay viable even as their droplet evaporates? That's the question behind this video's research. (Video and image credit: R. Ran et al.)

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Seeing Stress in an Avalanche

Researchers sometimes study avalanches and other granular flows in a rolling drum, where grains can cascade down continuously. Here, the twist is that they've done it with photoelastic disks, which show stress patterns when viewed under crossed polarizing filters. (Video and image credit: R. Hodgson et al.)

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Setting the Stripes on a Tiger (Cake)

A tiger skin cake forms a distinctive pattern of light and dark patches as it bakes.  (Image credit: K. Koutova et al.)