Engineers at Yale University have discovered that the stiffness of liquid drops embedded in solids has something in common with Goldilocks: While large drops of liquids are softer than the solid that ...

Honey is already a pretty thick liquid, but let it begin to crystalize and it can become downright clumpy. The sugar crystals in suspension seem to increase its viscosity. This phenomenon occurs ...

Gas fields in Colorado soon may serve as a laboratory for testing a different way to fracture shale rock formations - one that doesn't pump millions of gallons of water underground or yield ...

AMES, Iowa – Martin Thuo likes to look for new, affordable and clean ways to put science and technology to work in the world. His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal innovation: “How do you do ...

Engineers have developed a new way to 3D-print liquid and solid materials together, potentially leading to more dynamic and useful products -- from robots to wearable electronic devices. Imagine a ...

OKLAHOMA CITY --- A local petroleum engineer has an idea on how British Petroleum can contain the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. The oil spill is gushing about 200,000 gallons a day and the leak has now ...