Mayonnaise’s texture is perfect for mimicking what a fuel capsule goes through when it’s blasted with lasers to ignite nuclear fusion, Emily Conover reported in “Mayonnaise may shed light on nuclear ...

Oobleck has long been my favorite example of a non-Newtonian fluid, and I’m not alone. It’s a hugely popular “kitchen science” experiment because it’s simple and easy to make. Mix one part water to ...

Matter is anything that takes up space, such as air, trees, bugs, even people. Typically, matter is categorized under three different categories: solids, liquids, and gases. Oobleck, which gets it's ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore mixtures, solutions, states of matter, and solubility, this experiment is for you! Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on ...

Create a fascinating substance named after Dr. Seuss's story "Bartholomew and the Oobleck"! This strange material acts like a liquid when handled gently but becomes solid when force is applied. It's a ...

You may be familiar with a common science demonstration done in classrooms: If you mix cornstarch and water together in the right proportions, you create a gooey material that seems to defy the rules ...

As a dense suspension of piezoelectric nanoparticles shear thickens due to a transition from frictionless (gray) to frictional (red) particle–particle interactions, friction-induced piezoelectricity ...

If it's been a while since you've been to a fifth-grade science fair, then you probably don't know about oobleck. Oobleck, which was named after the magic substance in a famous Dr. Seuss book, is what ...