Previous attempts to do this – which were based on vessels filled with water – failed because the laser pulses used did not make the plasma hot enough to emit light in the visible part of the spectrum ...

Physicists have made water droplets emit white light for the first time using laser pulses. Jean-Pierre Wolf of the University of Lyon 1 in France and colleagues used femtosecond pulses to create ...

“What we have done, for the first time, is we have seen that little droplets, when they’re formed from water, actually emit light and get this spark,” Zare said. “That’s new. And that ...

This discovery also sheds light on water’s surprising reactivity. Traditionally considered a passive medium, water has shown ...

Scientists believe they have discovered a key chemical process which helped to kickstart life on our planet, with all the action taking place inside droplets of water. It has long been theorised ...

Droplets bouncing off surfaces are an everyday phenomenon, like raindrops bouncing off lotus leaves or water drops sizzling in a hot pan, levitating and sliding around—aka the Leidenfrost effect.

Putting tiny magnetic particles inside ordinary water droplets can turn them into liquid ... thus connecting a circuit and lighting a light bulb. Xiao Yan at Chongqing University in China says ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from ... the flashes of light, which are hard to ...