When the world's expert on pygmy mammoths asks you a question about ketchup, you have to find the answer. The context was the article I wrote last week about non-Newtonian fluids, where researchers at ...

Ketchup, which is made by heating ripe tomatoes, filtering them, boiling them at a low temperature, and then adding sugar, salt, vinegar, etc., is a seasoning that goes well with hot dogs, sausages, ...

One of these is not like the others: honey, water, ketchup, and blood. The answer? Water, because the other three are all non-Newtonian fluid. When Isaac Newton first defined the properties of an ...

In the most basic of terms, rheology can be considered the study of flow behavior in materials, whether solid, liquid, or gas. Rheology recognizes that certain solids respond with plastic flow in ...