It's True. Lattes Spill Less Than Coffee
Who knew? Latte lovers rejoice. You're far less likely to spill this sweet sip of this beverage than a coffee. Huh? It's the foam. According to a new study, scientists have found that just a few layers of bubbles can significantly dampen the sloshing motion of liquid. They actually stumbled upon this when looking into safer transport of liquefied gas in trucks and propellants in rocket engines. Researchers studying the problem accidentally solved it with beer, initially. "While I was studying for my Ph.D. in the south of France, we were in a pub, and we noticed that when we were carrying a pint of Guinness, which is a very foamy beer, the sloshing almost didn't happen at all," says Alban Sauret, who is currently a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at newswise.com. The scientists took their observations from the coffeehouse and the pub to the laboratory, where they built an apparatus to test the damping pow