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 is a fun, classic science experiment that’s easy to do at home, especially on those rainy days when you can’t get outside! It shows off the properties of a non-Newtonian fluid, a substance ...

The secret to understanding how oobleck — a Dr. Seuss-derived nickname for the combination of corn starch and water — works has finally been unraveled, a new Cornell study reports. As a non-Newtonian ...

Dr. Seuss wrote a children's book entitled "Bartholomew and the Oobleck." In this book the king of Didd got angry with the weather and commissioned his royal magicians to invent new weather. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Directions In a bowl, slowly add the water to the corn starch (you may want to color the water green...for added effect). Stop when the corn starch/water mixture is thick and gooey. Remember, you're ...