A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.

As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “ in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics ,” but a new and completely ...

In a surprising twist, a graduate student at UMass Amherst discovered a strange new fluid behavior that seems to defy ...

This liquid mixture consistently took the shape of a Grecian urn The liquid defied thermodynamics by not minimising ...

He made his mixture, shook it up—"and, in a complete surprise, the mixture formed this beautiful, pristine urn-shape." No matter how many times or how hard he shook, the urn shape always returned.

“Like the family of a design engineer from NASA who wanted an urn in the shape of the space shuttle he helped design, and the author from Missouri who’s wanted to memorialize her partner with ...

He made his mixture, shook it up -- "and, in a complete surprise, the mixture formed this beautiful, pristine urn-shape." No matter how many times or how hard he shook, the urn shape always returned.

The result is a strange "shape-recovering liquid" that forms a Grecian urn shape no matter how much it is shaken. Certain liquids do not want to play together: for an easy example, oil and water.