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Speaker 1: Grad students mess around in the lab all the time,

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Speaker 1: but as not often you accidentally shatter a known assumption

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Speaker 1: of thermodynamics.

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Speaker 2: You see this really just funky looking thing. So I

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Speaker 2: just went.

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Speaker 3: Around the hallway asking people like what they thought it

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Speaker 3: could be.

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Speaker 1: UMass Amer's grad student, Anthony Rake, was mixing oil, water

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Speaker 1: and nickel when he realized one combination created a curve

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Speaker 1: shape in the liquid that kept reforming no matter how

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Speaker 1: much you shake it. That's not really what's supposed to happen.

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Speaker 1: When you add a third substance to the mix.

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Speaker 4: That thing usually makes the two liquids mix better, mix

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Speaker 4: them more miscible.

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Speaker 1: His professors were shocked, including David Hoagland.

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Speaker 5: So Anthony certainly saw my reaction. I pulled out the

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Speaker 5: textbook and handed it to him.

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Speaker 1: He says the practical implications could be wide ranging, like

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Speaker 1: making oil spills easier to clean. Kyle SHAFFLEBBZ, Boston's news

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Speaker 1: radio