I did it 🫡 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

"A personal story ... a voyage through time.” For Ahmed Zewail, awarded the 1999 chemistry prize, the Nobel Prize medal carried a deeper symbolic story which he traced in his banquet speech back to his early life in Egypt. Read the full speech: bit.ly/3FJcbet

Ants making a smart maneuver

Congratulations to Ricardo for his publication on PNAS Nexus! “We measured the flow within and above a glass micro canopy contained by a microfluidic channel to explore elastic turbulence in a complex geometry and compare it with classical turbulent flow”

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Structural stability and thermodynamics of artistic composition.” In PNAS: ow.ly/AKwe50UwZit For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/a7h050UwZiu.

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: ow.ly/5vat50UwZAo

Open postdoctoral position in my group at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan. The position focuses on experimental research in microfluidics, rheology, and viscoelastic instabilities involving complex fluids.

How direct-current electric fields (dcEF) impact microRNA profiles in glioblastoma cells? 🧠⚡️ Our findings suggest that dcEF can influence crucial gene regulators, potentially opening new avenues for targeted cancer therapies. pubs.aip.org/aip/bmf/articl…

🎍㊗️ 2025 | #YNWA

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.01875 "Dense array of elastic hairs obstructing a fluidic channel" Explanations below 🧵👇

Long standing idea in the group that finally goes out! 😁We have now unraveled the mechanisms that control fluid-fluid reactions in two-phase flow in porous media. Congrats Xueyi Zhang Eawag ETH Zurich | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thrilled to see this paper published Science Advances! In it, we describe how growing bacterial colonies form metastable “living gels” in polymeric fluids. Check it out at doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…! A summary is at cce.caltech.edu/news-and-event… as well as in the tweetorial below ⬇️

The role of wetting on the flow of two immiscible fluids in porous media Physics of Fluids pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/articl…

In 1976, E. M. Purcell used scaling arguments & dimensional analysis to describe the fascinating physics of swimming microbes. These two articles in Nature Chemical Engineering follow that tradition! ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s44286… (individual cells) ➡️ nature.com/articles/s4428… (collectives) [1/5]

A new kind of elastic surface instability is observed during flow of extremely soft elastic solids through a confined space Letter: go.aps.org/4aORvks Video: go.aps.org/4aTAPZe

In Japan's research landscape, @OIST is different by design. We were created to deliver world-class science and innovation, and to showcase alternative models for excellent, interdisciplinary science. nature.com/articles/d4158…

WE'RE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! 🏆

Today, we hosted OIST’s 7th Graduation Ceremony, celebrating 40 PhD students - the largest graduating class in our history. Congratulations to the Class of 2025!

Sujit Datta’s (@thesquishylab) research spans #QuantumMaterials, #SoftMatter, and #BiologicalSystems. Now chief editor of Review of Modern Physics, he’s shaping the journal’s role in connecting ideas across physics. Read more: go.aps.org/3WRquGE