Messy Experiment Cleans Up Cornstarch Mystery
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Most people buy cornstarch to make custard or gravy, but Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger have used it to solve a longstanding physics problem with a substance known to generations of Dr. Seuss readers as "Oobleck," and to scientists as a non-Newtonian liquid.