Professor Derek Chan

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

Life’s a drag, unless you live in a bubble

In a breakthrough in our understanding of hydrodynamics, researchers have demonstrated the seemingly impossible: a ball that sinks in water with almost zero drag

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