Stitched photographs of a cylinder sequentially coated with curable elastomer while being rotated to grow stalactitelike elastomeric structures. The number of coatings increases clockwise. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Stacked Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities Grow Drops into Soft Stalactitelike Structures
Barath Venkateswaran, Trevor J. Jones, Grace Kresge, Joel Marthelot, Etienne Jambon-Puillet, and P.-T. Brun
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 198201 (2024)

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