Making Water Run Uphill

What happens when you add water, a silicone surface and a laser? Gravity-defying water, apparently:

[P]rofessor Chunlei Guo and his assistant Anatoliy Vorobyev demonstrate that by carving intricate patterns in silicon with extremely short, high-powered laser bursts, they can get liquid to climb to the top of a silicon chip like it was being sucked through a straw.

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