It could be the world's longest liquid bridge: researchers have coaxed water into leaping a 25-millimetre gap between two regular glass beakers in a gravity-defying stunt. The engineering feat could involve a hitherto unknown microstructure of water, the researchers say. "Nobody would expect stable bridges to form," says Elmar Fuchs, a physical chemist at Graz University of Technology in Austria.
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