In a world first, scientists in Germany have successfully recorded tiny oil droplets hovering within a flowing liquid, and ...

Whether it's Greek ouzo, French pastis or Turkish raki, when these spirits are diluted with water, the mixture becomes cloudy ...

Tiny sacs of lipids long thought to merely act as floating cellular pantries have an unexpected function, according to a new study (Science 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.aay8085). The lipid droplets can ...

Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and spontaneously divide, suggesting they might have evolved into the first living cells. A collaboration ...

A collaboration of physicists and biologists in Germany has found a simple mechanism that might have enabled liquid droplets to evolve into living cells in early Earth’s primordial soup.

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to switch genes on and off with exquisite precision. The latest work on ...

It is easier to get infected in winter than in summer - this is true for the Corona pandemic, for influenza and for other viral diseases. Relative humidity plays an important role in this. Outdoors, ...

Life might have originated in droplets that behave surprisingly like living cells. As bored children buckled in backseats, we grow familiar with the way raindrops on glass slide together and coalesce.

A new technique provides the first direct views of how drops and bubbles adhere to surfaces -- and how they let go. Understanding exactly how droplets and bubbles stick to surfaces -- everything from ...