Although many geodynamical mechanisms have been proposed regarding the origin of the observed complex structure of Earth’s inner core, no clear consensus has been reached. This is partly owing to the ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

If you’ve ever whacked the bottom of a ketchup bottle to get that tasty tomato goop flowing, you’ve put some serious physics to work. Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid. So are toothpaste, yogurt, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A non-Newtonian fluid -- is it a solid or is it a liquid? It actually acts like both and called oobleck! We will learn all about viscosity and pressure while making some oobleck!

The chemistry laboratory was buzzing one fall afternoon on a campus otherwise oddly quiet. One student measured heat transfer from burning diesel fuel in a steel container. Another tracked the ...

Studies explore fluids in pancakes, beer, and the kitchen sink. Mechanical engineer Roberto Zenit spent the summer of 2019 trying to solve a problem that now plagues science departments around the ...

It was “brute curiosity,” says Edward L. Cussler Jr., that led him to fill a University of Minnesota-Twin Cities swimming pool with guar gum two years ago. The chemical-engineering professor was ...

Researchers at MIT have been conducting an experiment that, on the surface, may not sound particularly useful. The experiment has researchers shooting a high-pressure stream of water through a water ...