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When you spill a liquid on the ground, it splashes.

But if you're a guy using a urinal, or more important, if the liquid is dangerous, say an infected blood sample, you want to limit splashing.

In other words, if an accident happens, what you would like to have is that the drop falls onto the surface, and that's it, no?

It stays there as a single body.

Alfonso Castarhon Pita, an engineering professor at Oxford University.

So you could imagine the situation of having your bench covered with these kind of materials, so that they become safer.

And the same for a kitchen.

No, you're in a kitchen, you are handling raw chicken.

And the last thing you want to is to have splashes,

where you could be transmitting salmonella or these kind of ugly things that you get when you are handling raw meat.

He and his colleagues found that the softer the surface, the smaller the splash.

Their study is in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The researchers prepared a bunch of increasingly squishy silicone surfaces

and released drops of ethanol onto them from different heights.

They captured video of the splashes with a super slow motion camera

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