One lab is using slow motion footage of people sneezing to study the physics of these disease-spreading expulsions.
This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 31, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.
One lab is using slow motion footage of people sneezing to study the physics of these disease-spreading expulsions.
This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 31, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.
Sneezes play an important part in the spread of infections, but we don’t know a huge amount about how they work. Lydia Bourouiba’s lab at MIT is trying to change that, using slow motion footage and other measurements to study the fluid dynamics of sneezing.