To Build a Better Teapot, Researchers Create Liquid Helix

It is a truth universally acknowledged that nothing--nothing--is more pointlessly irritating than a poorly designed water jug. You know--the kind that mindlessly dribbles all over the table every time you try to serve yourself? For centuries ceramicists and potters have slowly perfected ways to get around the so-called "teapot effect", but scientists have long struggled to properly model the phenomenon. Image credit: GettyImages Well, until now. In anew articleinPhysical Review Letters, research...