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Walking on water

By Stephen Ornes / July 30, 2012

his cornstarch and water goo looks like a liquid, but put your hand on the surface and pull up, like a researcher here, and the goo sticks and rises with your hand (before gravity takes over and it drops). That's because in motion, this goo becomes thick and heavy like a solid. Credit: University of Chicago

Scientists explain why a liquid can sometimes act like a solid

Posted in Physics | Tagged classification of matter, colloid, fluids, getinvolved, Heinrich M. Jaeger, liquids, matter, non-Newtonian, Phases, physics, science fair, Scott Waitukaitis, solids, solutions/intermolecular forces, states of matter, topstories, University of Chicago, water

Gulf oil finds many paths

By Stephen Ornes / September 10, 2010

The Gulf Oil Spill. Credit: NASA

Questions, and lots of oil, remain months after Gulf disaster

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged feature, immiscibility, intermolecular force, oil, oil spill, solutions/intermolecular forces, water

Cold, colder and coldest ice

By Stephen Ornes / February 25, 2010

Electric charge can change the temperature at which water freezes.

Posted in Chemistry | Tagged Electric Charge, electricity/electric charge, freezing, Freezing Point, Hydrogen Bonding, ice, intermolecular forces, physics, solutions/intermolecular forces, states of matter, water