In this video, people use all kinds of ways to travel across “oobleck,” a non-Newtonian fluid that has the properties of both a liquid and a solid. In short, if you apply sudden force (like stomping ...

When the world's expert on pygmy mammoths asks you a question about ketchup, you have to find the answer. The context was the article I wrote last week about non-Newtonian fluids, where researchers at ...

When I was a kid, my mother would sometimes give my younger brothers and me a large tub of oobleck, telling us to go play outside and make a mess. Oobleck is a milky-white, shiny substance known as a ...

Welcome to Science Class 101. I’m your teacher for the next few minutes, to break down what it is about D3O’s non-Newtonian material that makes its upcoming range of helmet protection potentially ...

A viral video shows people in Kuala Lumper, Malaysia, walking across the liquid below. They also danced on it: Flipped onto it: Played soccer on it: And rode a bike across it: Sort of. A substance ...

Encapsulated microbubbles (EMBs), tiny gas-filled bubbles coated in lipid or protein shells, play a central role in ...

This article was taken from the February 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

Within the small world that is the history of science, biographies are about the only type of book that appeals to a wider readership. Books on the giants of science – especially Newton, Darwin and ...