14-billion-years-later:

The Slipperiest Slope

A new material has been designed and made by Harvard university which has the slipperiest surface known. The design itself takes inspiration from nature in the form of the insides of carnivorous pitcher plants (which work to repel the oily feet of insects). The material itself is called SLIPS or “Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surface” and comprises of a porous material filled and slightly covered with a lubricating fluid which acts to repel a wide range of materials. Other slippery materials typically displace materials at 5 degrees of tilt while SLIPS manages this at only 2 degrees.

The applications for this technology are plentiful, from aeronautics right down to getting those last few drops of ketchup out of the bottle.

Excellent!  Good work, Harvard.  Maybe you should send us some… we promise to use it for good, and definitely not for playing hilarious pranks on our co-workers.  Honest.