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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever drizzled honey on a piece of toast, you’ve noticed how the amber liquid folds and coils in on itself as it hits the toast. The same thing can happen with 3D and 4D printing if the print ...

Annoyed by excessively-long cables? Tired of the dull drudgery and ugly results of bunching up the slack and wrapping it with a twist-tie? Suffer no longer, because the solution is to make your own ...