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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Want to have fun with physics and even "walk on water"? Try making a mixture of cornstarch and ...

Quicksand and other non-Newtonian fluids share properties with both liquids and solids. Non-Newtonian fluids consist of tiny grains suspended in liquid, with the appearance of a solid or gel. Stand on ...

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 ...

“It’s the ultimate quicksand!” he said, digging his hands into a plastic bowl filled with the cream-colored fluid. What Almando (pictured above) held is called “oobleck” for demonstration purposes, a ...

(Mass Appeal) – Get hands-on with this fun science experiment from the Springfield Museums. Oobleck is made with equal parts of cornstarch and water. Food coloring can be added to give it some color.

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 ...