‘Dancing’ raisins − a simple kitchen experiment reveals how objects can extract energy from their environment and come to life
Saverio Eric Spagnolie, Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scientific discovery doesn’t always require a high-tech laboratory or a hefty budget. Many people have a first-rate lab right in their own homes – their kitchen.
The kitchen offers plenty of opportunities to view and explore what physicists call soft matter and complex fluids. Everyday phenomena, such as Cheerios clustering in milk or rings left when drops of coffee evaporate, have led to discoveries at the intersection of physics and chemistry and other tasteful collaborations between food...