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Why your faucet drips: Water jet breakup traced to angstrom-scale thermal capillary waves

Some phenomena in our daily lives are so commonplace that we don't realize there could be some very interesting physics behind them. Take a dripping faucet: why does the continuous stream of water ...
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Plumbers swear by the slow drip method to prevent frozen pipes this winter

Letting faucets slowly drip in freezing weather keeps water moving, which helps prevent pipes from freezing and bursting.