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 ...

If you mix cornstarch and water in the right proportions, you get “oobleck”: something that seems not-quite-liquid but also not-quite-solid. Oobleck flows and settles like a liquid when untouched, but ...

D30 is soft until acted upon by a force. Then, in a fraction of a second, it turns hard, offering protection to whatever it surrounds. By Joe Schwarcz, Special to the Montreal Gazette July 6, 2018 at ...

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 ...

Dilatants are a class of non-Newtonian fluids characterized by their ability to transition from a fluid state to a near-solid state under shear stress due to a high concentration of solid particles ...

I wear eyeglasses (you may too) and blow on them when they are dusty. The large dust particles blow off easily but the small particles do not. But why not? This familiar occurrence illustrates the ...