This video features a massive 660-pound Hulk fist being dropped from a height of 45 meters onto a pool filled with oobleck, ...

Lots of people have demonstrated that, surprisingly, if you fill a pool with water and cornstarch you can run across it. Stop, and you sink. How that happens, though, has been something of a mystery ...

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 ...

If it's been a while since you've been to a fifth-grade science fair, then you probably don't know about oobleck. Oobleck, which was named after the magic substance in a famous Dr. Seuss book, is what ...

In this video excerpt from NOVA's "Making Stuff: Smarter", host and New York Times technology columnist David Pogue learns about the interesting behavior of some fluids with strange flow properties.

Scientists are keen to develop new materials for lightweight, flexible, and affordable wearable electronics so that, one day, dropping our smartphones won’t result in irreparable damage. One team at ...

It takes guts to attempt running across the surface of a liquid. Even more so if a sneaky physicist is nearby. Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid, meaning that its viscosity changes depending upon the ...

Oobleck - when is a liquid not always a liquid and a solid not always a solid? Oobleck - when is a liquid not always a liquid and a solid not always a solid? When its "Oobleck"! - the solution of ...

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 ...

Matter is anything that takes up space, such as air, trees, bugs, even people. Typically, matter is categorized under three different categories: solids, liquids, and gases. Oobleck, which gets it's ...

Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid, which is a fancy term for a liquid whose viscosity varies with pressure. Is it a rock? Is it a liquid or solid? It’s both! Making your own oobleck is a simple, ...