Video Showing a Toroidal Droplet (VIDEO) Georgia Institute of Technology This video is under embargo. Please login to access this video. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Caption This is a video of image stacks taken with a confocal microscope. The video is false-colored and demonstrates both the 3-D nature of the toroidal droplet as well as how the structure of the active nematic changes over time. The worm-like structures of the active nematic are microtubules driven by kinesin motor proteins. By analyzing the video, the researchers found that even with the molecular motors driving the system out of equilibrium, the defects were still able to sense the curvature. Credit Credit: Perry Ellis, Georgia Tech Usage Restrictions None License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.