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Published online 2 January 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001228-9

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Heat stops drips

Next time you paint the living-room ceiling, heat the floor and it won't get dripped on.

Michelangelo would be delighted. Physicists at the University of Texas at Austin have devised a way to stop paint dripping from a ceiling.

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