Students from Germany, Spain and Switzerland claim EU Young Scientist prize
From a field of over 120 young hopefuls, students from Germany, Spain and Switzerland claimed the three first prizes at this year's European Union Contest for Young Scientists at a ceremony in Moscow.
Some 78 scientific projects, all of which had come through national contests to make the grand final, were vying for recognition at the ceremony hosted by the Bauman University. In the end though, top honours went to projects in the fields of fluid physics, biology and medicine.
German pairing Igor Gotlibovitch (18) and Renate Landig (19) claimed their 5,000 euro first prize for an investigation into the 'hydraulic jump' phenomenon in fluid dynamics. 'Every day, when we run the kitchen tap, we see a 'hydraulic jump' - where the water hits the basin it spreads out thinly, but a little further out the water level suddenly 'jumps' and becomes much deeper,' the scientists explain. 'This project investigated the phenomenon under laboratory conditions, and found that under certain conditions the border between the shallow and the deep water was not circular but polygonal: the water had corners.'
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