Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of food coloring (2015)

Re:Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of ... by TeMPOraL on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:46AM (#25158899)

I guess it's a difference in the target audience. They're writing for the people who will look at it and exclaim, "oh, how beautiful deep and profound this Science is".

Myself, I look at science articles with questions that boil down to "how can we make use of it to build something cool?". I look for explanations, even coarse, of what's going on - what are the critical conditions that need to be preserved for the phenomenon to appear? What are the hard constraints? So yeah, I prefer less artistic but confusing analogies.

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Re:Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of ... by xbar on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:32AM (#25161393)

I think you are right. These are marketing pieces, not journals. I do not think that's not bad at all. I am certain the journal article for this story satisfies demands of rigor.

But I like being able to take this piece to my 10 year-old who may focus her 5th grade science project on yogurt and getting her inspired to be curious about the fluids she plays with every day.

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Re:Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of ... by teekert on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:18PM (#25164485)

Exactly, I mean you can just add a small animation of how evaporation in 1 component is faster and pushes the two-bubble structure in one direction. It runs untill it gets too cold (endothermic reaction). Or something like that.. but correct ;)

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