What does it take to escape the water? Plankton have clues

ScienceDaily: Dolphins and whales may attract a lot of attention when they leap dramatically out of the water. But aquatic animals thousands of times smaller are accomplished jumpers, too. Their acrobatics often go unnoticed, but understanding them could help improve engineering processes, like oil refining and wastewater treatment, that rely on controlling the interaction of small particles with air-water interfaces. Sunghwan Jung, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics in Virginia Tech's......

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