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 ...

(BCM) - We often hear about the importance of cultivating the next generation of scientists and engineers. For young children that starts with simply helping them to develop scientific skills like ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Perhaps you've heard of Oobleck, a fictional substance from the mind of Dr. Seuss in his book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck. In the book, this slimy green material takes over the ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Sir Isaac Newton? Physics? Please. Don’t tell my kids (or yours) that when they squeeze and swirl this cornstarch ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore mixtures, solutions, states of matter, and solubility, this experiment is for you! Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on ...

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 ...

What Almando (pictured above) held is called “oobleck” for demonstration purposes, a nod to Dr. Seuss’ classic tale of weird, blobby rain falling from the sky. What it actually is, Tanay Lathia told ...

When Theater Oobleck’s co-founder and guiding spirit, Mickle Maher, left the company in 1992 to return to college in distant Vermont and refire his creative batteries, most observers figured the ...

Emmy Bean in Theater Oobleck's A Memory Palace of Fear Credit: Kristin Basta The first half of Theater Oobleck‘s A Memory Palace of Fear is ingeniously disappointing. After checking in with an ...