Boing Boing on MSN

Physicists calculate exactly how long it takes to completely drain a bottle of olive oil

You're tilting a bottle of olive oil over a pan, waiting for the last bit to slide out. Physicists at Brown University now ...

How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers? These physicists know the answer

At some point, most people have found themselves holding a tilted carton of milk or bottle of cooking oil, patiently waiting for the last drops to drip out. Now, physicists at Brown University have ...

Physicists calculate exactly how long that last drop takes

But thanks to physicists at Brown University, people no longer have to guess how long it may take to finally empty that bottle of ketchup—provided you are well-versed in the right math. According to ...

Fluid simulation at unprecedented scale provides toolkit for fundamental physics and applied fluid engineering

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...
The Debrief

Forget the Three-Body Problem. Scientists Claim They’ve Just Solved the 100,000-Body Problem

After years of creating highly specialized software, researchers used supercomputer clusters to finally solve the "100,000-body problem.