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, ...

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 ...

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!

Although water’s shear viscosity is important in accurate molecular dynamics modeling, the results from two popular water models differ from those of actual experiments by as much as 20%. In a recent ...

A new device helps scientists measure lava viscosity during active flows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last year, scientists ...

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 ...