How (and why) to unboil an egg
Have you ever boiled an egg and wished you hadn’t? It’s the kind of thing that can ruin your day.
Thankfully, science is here to help. All you need is a handy invention called the Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD for short), a machine with a tube that can spin tiny amounts of liquids around at dizzying speeds and at precise angles. It was developed by a team of researchers led by Australian Academy of Science Fellow Professor Colin Raston, and can do far more important things than simply reversing your cooking: it can produce alternative fuels more easily, create medicines more efficiently, chop up carbon nanotubes into nice evenly-sized pieces, and loads more.
So how does it work? Let’s unboil our egg to find out.
