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Physics

Make these four classic cocktails and become a fluid dynamics expert

Delicious drinks can be the perfect miniature laboratory for demonstrating the weird physics of fluids. Here are four of the best examples and how you can try them at home

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Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount

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Physics

Physicists have worked out how to pour water as quietly as possible

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Hairy legs make you swim better – if you're a shrimp

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Physics

Tiny lasers can be made from soap bubbles

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vortices in a Martini glass

Physics

Physicists have invented a new way to shake a martini

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Physics

The Great Sphinx of Giza may have been blown into shape by the wind

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Physics

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Swimming in certain positions relative to other swimmers can offer an advantage

Physics

Swimming behind someone cuts drag by up to 40 per cent

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Physics

We finally know why bubbles rise in a straight line in champagne

In carbonated drinks, the wake from rising bubbles can disturb other bubbles. But when the molecules that give fizzy drinks their flavour coat the bubbles, they can form stable columns as they float

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Underwater pendulums could calm waves and reduce coastal erosion

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Physics

51¶¯Âþs can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

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Physics

Strange water wave can bounce a droplet thousands of times

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Physics

Spectacular liquid fractal generated by a submerged spinning top

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