It’s not exactly an accident that so few people have a clear idea of what’s inside a lava lamp, as manufacturers ... Having said that, knowing how lava lamps work has definitely shed some ...

The lava lamp shows the difference between conceptual physics and practical engineering. The principles behind how it works are well known and obvious, but actually getting substances to do what ...

Jessica Orwig: No. It really does look like human fat. Jones: That's me and my boss opening up a lava lamp. [glugging] Oh! Are we getting these noises, guys? Our goal was simple: to figure out ...

His creation -- called Inspiration, currently seeking funding on Kickstarter-- is based on the same principle as the lava lamp. As the incandescent light source at the bottom heats the ferrofluid ...

Using a simplified model of a cell, Parikh’s laboratory has discovered how mixtures of polymers can parse into phase-separated droplets, like oils in a lava lamp, and that these droplets interact with ...

Would something so simple like a lava lamp work at the higher gravity found on Jupiter? The easy solution would have been to just do the research, crunch the numbers, and get an answer.

“It’s kind of the principle of a lava lamp or boiling water,” says astronomer Wouter Vlemmings of the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

like oils in a lava lamp, and that these droplets interact with the cell membrane in unexpected ways, including affecting the exterior structure of the cell. The work is published July 6 in Nature ...