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Case closed -- MIT gumshoes solve 'throbbing' oil mystery

Try this at home. Pour clean water onto a plate. Wait for the ripples to stop. Then mix a small amount of mineral oil with an even smaller amount of detergent. Squeeze a tiny drop of that mixture onto the water and watch as the oil appears to pump like a beating heart. It's a simple experiment, but explaining what happens has long mystified the scientific community. Now an MIT team has cracked the case.

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