Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. If you are kitchen-savvy, you probably know “the water test” method for getting stainless steel pans to the right ...

Researchers conducted experiments aboard the ISS to study the merging of large water droplets on surfaces with varying roughness. The experiments aimed to validate the Davis-Hocking model, which ...

It is usually not possible to look inside cloudy liquids, but researchers have now managed to do so. When driving though a bank of fog, car headlights are only of limited help as the light is ...

A colloidal suspension directly after being added to a suspension medium and 5 seconds later, after crystallization has occurred. A spherical polycrystalline ball forms that exhibits a vivid play of ...