{"id":12246,"date":"2016-09-09T06:10:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=12246"},"modified":"2016-09-04T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T14:33:51","slug":"making-droplets-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=12246","title":{"rendered":"Making Droplets Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When farmers spray their fields, a significant portion of the spray bounces right off the plants and lands on the ground. But now, by using a clever combination of two inexpensive, polymer additives, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to make droplets less bouncy. (Learn more:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/mitsha.re\/OEyz303JBbM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mitsha.re\/OEyz303JBbM\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgiEwiNj9ay5PXOAhXFuZwKHV9DAtwo-B0\">http:\/\/mitsha.re\/OEyz303JBbM<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NStQ_MasrGs\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video: Melanie Gonick\/MIT<\/p>\n<p>Droplet videos: Maher Damak<br \/>\nFarming stock footage: Pond5.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When farmers spray their fields, a significant portion of the spray bounces right off the plants and lands on the ground. But now, by using a clever combination of two inexpensive, polymer additives, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to make droplets less bouncy. (Learn more:\u00a0http:\/\/mitsha.re\/OEyz303JBbM) Video: Melanie Gonick\/MIT Droplet videos: Maher Damak Farming stock footage: Pond5.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-12246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future","category-tech","tag-mit-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12247,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions\/12247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}