{"id":288550,"date":"2017-03-17T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/03\/170317082750.htm"},"modified":"2017-03-17T08:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T12:27:50","slug":"why-water-splashes-new-theory-reveals-secrets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=288550","title":{"rendered":"Why water splashes: New theory reveals secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason why raindrops and spilled coffee splash has been revealed by scientists. The new theory uncovers \u2013 for first time \u2013 what happens in space between liquid drop and surface to cause splash. A microscopic layer of air \u2013 50 times smaller than a human hair \u2013 trapped between liquid and surface can prevent liquid spreading on surface. In their new report, scientists compare the scale of this 1cm layer of air stopping a tsunami wave spreading across a beach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason why raindrops and spilled coffee splash has been revealed by scientists. The new theory uncovers &ndash; for first time &ndash; what happens in space between liquid drop and surface to cause splash. A microscopic layer of air &ndash; 50 times smaller than a human hair &ndash; trapped between liquid and surface can prevent liquid spreading on surface. In their new report, scientists compare the scale of this 1cm layer of air stopping a tsunami wave spreading across a beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288551,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288550\/revisions\/288551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}