There’s a common popular science demonstration involving “soap boats,” in which liquid soap poured onto the surface of water creates a propulsive flow driven by gradients in surface tension. But it ...

Have you ever noticed how your last little bits of cereal tend to stick together, or to the sides of the bowl? This week, we’re taking a closer look at -- and this is the published name for it -- the ...

Ever watch what happens to the last bunch of Cheerios left floating in your breakfast bowl? The oat rings tend to cluster on the milk’s surface as if they had a magnetic attraction. Known as the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The same phenomena that let beetles float across ponds and cause Cheerios to cluster together in your cereal bowl can be harnessed to make tiny floating robots. One of these, the Marangoni effect, ...

In brief: In what is certainly one of the quirkiest science demonstrations we've seen, researchers have taken inspiration from a phenomenon observed in Cheerios to create tiny robots powered by vodka.

It's "muddy paw season" for much of the first week of March. Dan Smith has the details on several rounds of rain to come. The Toledo Museum of Art draws visitors from far and wide who admire the vast ...