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Published online 6 April 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060403-10
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Puzzle of leaping liquid solved
Physicists explain how shampoo streams can bounce.
Dutch researchers believe they have cracked the physics behind a mysterious bouncing behaviour of liquids, first seen more than 40 years ago.
British engineer Arthur Kaye first noticed this weird phenomenon in 1963, while experimenting with a mixture of obscure organic liquids.
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