Published in ScienceNOW, 22 Nov 2011
“True ease in writing comes from art,” wrote Alexander Pope in the early 18th century. Three hundred years on, however, we might get a little extra help from science—thanks to researchers who have been studying how ink flows from pen to paper. Performing theoretical calculations first, the team devised equations for predicting the spreading of ink from a moving pen. […]
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