If you carefully lower a rope onto the floor it will probably form a neat coil. While most people wouldn’t give this a second thought, an international team of physicists has done a series of ...

A scientist who has studied falling playing cards, coiling rope and other phenomena has now analyzed what transforms a carpenter’s tool into a sonorous instrument. By Nicholas Bakalar Early in the ...

As a fluid, a thick sugar solution such as honey or corn syrup works well. Choose the most viscous (thickest) honey or syrup you can find in the supermarket (without going to the extreme of nearly ...