You know when you pour milk into a bowl of breakfast cereal and the floating cereal tends to clump together? In fluid mechanics, that phenomenon is known as the ‘Cheerios effect,’ and it’s inspired ...

Ever watch what happens to the last bunch of Cheerios left floating in your breakfast bowl? The oat rings tend to cluster on the milk’s surface as if they had a magnetic attraction. Known as the ...

The same phenomena that let beetles float across ponds and cause Cheerios to cluster together in your cereal bowl can be harnessed to make tiny floating robots. One of these, the Marangoni effect, ...