As COVID-19 ravaged Wuhan, China, in January, scientists remained unsure how the virus was spreading so rapidly. Biophysicist Adriaan Bax, chatting over dinner with his linguist wife Ingrid Pufahl, started to suspect that the saliva we project as we speak … Continue reading
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Fluid dynamics work hints at whether spoken word can spread COVID-19
As of April 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising that everyone—sick or healthy—wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Recent research on how fluids travel from our respiratory tracts when we sneeze, speak, or … Continue reading
Categories: Applied Physical Sciences | Immunology | Infectious disease | Journal Club | Medical Sciences
Tagged aerosol particles, coronavirus, cough, COVID-19, facemask, fluid dynamics, saliva, SARS-Cov-2, sneeze, social distancing
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Journal Club: The simple physics of stretching rubber bands surprises researchers, offers up potential application
Movie 2 – Classic strech dominated recoil When the researchers turned their high-speed camera on a rubber band being released, they discovered, to their surprise, that the shape of the back of the rubber band was round (top clip), and … Continue reading
Categories: Applied Physical Sciences | Journal Club | Physics
Tagged fluid dynamics, molecular device, physics, rubber band, satellite, trapezoid
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