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Published online 20 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070716-17
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Liquids bounce again
Jumping jets move from the bathroom to the kitchen.
After bouncing shampoo, physicists now bring you bouncing cooking oil. A team in Texas has found that the trampolining of a liquid jet falling onto a bath of the same liquid is more common than expected.
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