Water beads up on a fallen leaf following a recent rain in the Rainbow area of Washington County. If you have a recent photo ...

Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to make realistic-looking water drops. This is an updated version of a tutorial I did in 2011. Leaf sample 1: <a href=" Leaf sample 2: <a href=" Subscribe to Blue ...

Studying water droplets on leaves may seem like a triviality at best but, when you think about it, there are a lot of leaves out there, and it turns out to be a heck of a lot of water. Trees cover ...

Many gardeners swear you should not water in the midday because water droplets on plants can magnify the sun's rays and burn leaves. But the idea has never been rigorously tested, until now.

And if you go looking on the interwebs, about 80 per cent of relevant sites claim that water droplets plus the midday sun will burn the leaf. Finally, after what must be centuries of this ...

Does it really lead to burnt plants or worse? A team of scientists found that water droplets on a smooth surface, such as maple or ginkgo leaves, cannot cause leaf burn. However in contrast the ...

The other evening, I was sitting in the living room reading when I glanced at a bird flying past the window and noticed water drops on the leaves of our Monstera deliciosa plant. This phenomenon ...

Impact of water droplets on leaves quickly triggers stress responses in plants. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 10 / 191030110006.htm ...

Existing superhydrophobic surfaces exhibit limitations, particularly in scenarios where the surfaces get easily wet when ...

Why do droplets of water roll over lotus leaves without wetting them? Researchers have found the answer in the invisible micro-bumps with nano-hairs that dot the lotus leaf surface 1. The insight ...

Droplets bouncing off surfaces are an everyday phenomenon, like raindrops bouncing off lotus leaves or water drops sizzling in a hot pan, levitating and sliding around—aka the Leidenfrost effect.

Many plants are extremely water-repellent owing to their rough textures, which can trap air to provide a waterproof cushioning. In some cases, plant leaves are so repellent that no droplets can stick ...