Ever wondered how astronauts keep their hair squeaky clean in zero gravity? The answer is weird, fascinating, and ...

When I worked in retail wine sales, I frequently had folks come in asking what to do with old bottles they found, and I always told them the same thing.

Microscopic bits of plastic are sloughing off into food and beverages when consumers unwrap the plastic packaging, a new study has shown.

Staff Sgt. Kyler Hughes, Construction Control Representative, was excited to contribute to the event with his “Ocean in a Bottle” experiment, which demonstrated how waves can be created in a ...

The writer Melissa Febos has a taste for extremes. Her new book, “The Dry Season,” chronicles a bold experiment in her search for self-knowledge.

A curious phenomenon known as the “Oakville blobs” appears to have returned to a small southwest Washington community, 31 years after the first reports of an unidentified gelatinous substance ...

The researchers determined that colloidal crystals form through a two-step process: amorphous blobs of particles first condense before transforming into ordered crystal structures, resulting in a ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to ...

Scientists observe how blobs form crystals and discover a new crystal type Meet 'Zangenite,' a hollow crystal structure named after the grad student who found it Date: April 28, 2025 Source: New ...

A two-step process To shed light on how colloidal crystals form, the researchers conducted experiments to carefully observe how charged colloidal particles behave in different growth conditions as ...