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Mon May 28, 2012
NPR Story

Clogged Ketchup No More With MIT's 'LiquiGlide'

Originally published on Mon May 28, 2012 2:14 pm

On Memorial Day, many of us flip burgers, spear hot dogs, and whack a ketchup bottle trying to coax a stubborn glob of the stuff out and onto the bun. Now, a team of scientists at MIT has decided that this ketchup-to-bottle adhesion is a problem that must be fixed. Melissa Block talks with doctoral MIT student Adam Paxson about a solution some researchers have developed.