"We found that sipping through a straw defies all the previously known laws for the resistance or friction of flow through a pipe or tube," explains Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York ...

IN his letter in NATURE of April 9, p. 527, Mr. H. F. P. Purday proposes to add yet another purely empirical formula to the many already proposed for representing the transfer of heat from a tube to a ...

For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes — pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The streams have ...