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Soft matter and liquids

Soft matter and liquids

Inverted buoyancy makes tiny boat appear to defy gravity

07 Sep 2020
Upside down boat
Topsy-turvy: plastic boats floating above and below a levitated liquid layer. (Courtesy: Benjamin Apffel et al./Nature)
Physicists in France have made small objects float upside-down on the underside of a layer of viscou

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