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.

Read the full article at the Australian Academy of Science.