"We found that sipping through a straw defies all the previously known laws for the resistance or friction of flow through a pipe or tube," explains Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York ...

Collaborative research on flow and acoustic fields in an expanding pipe with orifice plates In a research collaboration between the group of Professor Hiroshi Yokoyama of the Department of Mechanical ...

Physicists surprised to find that in specially coated tubes, the more viscous a liquid is, the faster it flows. It's widely known that thick, viscous liquids -- like honey -- flow more slowly than low ...

A team of researchers has uncovered new laws governing the flow of fluids through experiments on a technology thousands of years old: a drinking straw. This knowledge could be useful for improving ...