A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws of thermodynamics, according to the authors of a new paper based on his ...

Recovering Liquid’ by Mixing Oil, Water and Nickel - Defy the Laws of Thermodynamics For decades, scientists have developed several theories that dictate the human world. One of these theories is the ...

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

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

Oil and water contained in a cylinder with magnetic nickel particles form the shape of a Grecian urn. A combination of oil, ...

Do not stir. Watch the two drops combine on their own. Use colored pencils to draw what the combined yellow and blue liquids look like as they interact and mix. Also, write a description of your ...

Mixing substances can result in a chemical reaction that produces new substances. Two liquids can chemically react to produce a solid. Substances have characteristic chemical reactions that can be ...

Every student learns that oil and water don’t mix. But there are exceptions. The two liquids are immiscible, but they can be blended together into an emulsion in which small droplets of oil are ...