What blobs of heated wax bubbling in a glass cylinder was to the ’70s, ferromagnetic fluid is to 2015. Kyle Haines, founder of Inspired Designs, says this is natural: ferrofluid and lava lamps are a ...

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Every once in a while, we all need a good reminder that electromagnetism is mind-boggling. Thankfully, in its latest video, the YouTube channel The Action Lab offers a stellar nod to the force of ...

Back in October 2019, I tried making ferrofluid, but I kept failing and I ended up giving up for a while. Months later though ...

A new desk lamp is taking over from the lava lamp -- by replacing the boring old wax lava with interactive magnetic fluid. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Ferrofluid may not be a weird, amorphous creature that bonds with its host like the black glorp that eventually turns Eddie Brock into Venom, but it still looks enough like the otherworldly stuff that ...

A couple months ago, we posted about Ferrolic, a ferromagnetic alarm clock that was just stunning. Unfortunately, it was also incredibly expensive: $8,300 if you wanted to buy one, which you probably ...

Watch what happens when we mix ferrofluid with the liquid from a glow stick! Ferrofluid is a liquid that displays unusual properties in the presence of a magnetic field. Watch what happens when we mix ...

Ferrofluid was invented by a NASA engineer in an attempt to develop a method for manipulating rocket fuel in zero gravity -- but you probably know it as that cool black liquid that morphs into ...

[NileRed] admits that while ferrofluid has practical uses, he simply wanted to play with it and didn’t want to pay the high prices he found in Canada. A lot of the instructions he found were not for ...

Every once in a while, we all need a good reminder that electromagnetism is mind-boggling. Thankfully, in its latest video, the YouTube channel The Action Lab offers a stellar nod to the force of ...