{"id":110595,"date":"2020-07-29T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-crazier-crazy-straw-for-science"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:03:19","slug":"a-crazier-crazy-straw-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-crazier-crazy-straw-for-science","title":{"rendered":"A Crazier Crazy Straw for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-crazier-crazy-straw-for-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do the loopy straws that children like to sip drinks through have in common with cutting-edge science? Ask Ryan Murphy and his colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where the team has thought up a creative way to explore the properties of fluids under extreme conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The team invented a device that can push fluids through a narrow tube at the velocity of a car hurtling down a rural interstate \u2014 about 110 km per hour. This might not sound overly fast to a road tripper, but the tube\u2019s inner diameter is typically 100 micrometers \u2014 about the thickness of a human hair. Scaled up, that would be like a train hurtling through a subway tunnel about 100 times faster than a rocket blasting its way into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>To add to the fun, the meter-long tube is coiled up like a spring, so the fluid careens around loop after three-centimeter-wide loop, as though that rocketing subway were a blindingly fast roller coaster that turns somersaults from start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do the loopy straws that children like to sip drinks through have in common with cutting-edge science? Ask Ryan Murphy and his colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where the team has thought up a creative way to explore the properties of fluids under extreme conditions. The team invented a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}