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 ...

ANN ARBOR---For centuries people have been fascinated by enormous columnar rock formations like the Devil's Postpile in California. The Celts, for example, were convinced that Giant's Causeway, in ...

This video opens with footage of a common cornstarch and water experiment. Ian Oberst, a visiting student from Portland Community College who participated in the University of Oregon's UCORE program ...

These Aha! resources are also available in Spanish! A funny thing happens when you add cornstarch to a liquid and heat up the mixture: It gets really, really thick, or viscous. That thickening process ...