Are cats liquid? | Marc-Antoine Fardin | TEDxTours
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TEDxTours
• June 2019
Marc-Antoine Fardin sheds light on a discipline that is little known among the general public: rheology, the study of the resistance of material to stress and distortion such as the flowing of substances, be they cells, tissues, polymers or ... cats. Cats? Can these little felines be liquid?
Marc-Antoine Fardin is a physicist and researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Jacques Monod Institute of the University of Paris Diderot. He was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize that recognizes quirky and even farcical scientific research that nevertheless provokes thought.
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