UC Santa Barbara researchers now know why a pool of red dye somehow “knew” how to solve a maze filled with milk.

Researchers discovered that ink in a soap-and-milk experiment follows the path of least resistance due to surface tension ...

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Surface tension -- the cohesion that causes molecules on the surface of a fluid to pull together and act like a membrane, resisting exterior forces -- plays a large role in this ink-on-milk ...