DATA GALLERY

How can you break water? By accelerating it so quickly that the pressure drop forms cavitation bubbles.  (Image credit: J. da Silva et al.)

When bubbles form atop the ocean or in our cups, they typically live short lives. Although the bubble can exchange fluid with the pool below, this only happens at the foot of the bubble cap.  (Image credit: T. Aurégan and L. Deike)

If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability.  (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

Convection isn’t always driven by temperature. Here, researchers explore the convective patterns formed by Thiovulum bacteria. (Video and image credit: O. Kodio et al.)