The first time I tried to make slime involved Borax, something I had on hand from an experiment in making my own laundry detergent. (This was before I had two children, obviously.)The resulting slime ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String. In the leaf litter of tropical and ...

Some damp things, like sweaty thighs, only want to stick together. Others, like wet organs, are far less cooperative. But now scientists have devised a clever way to make them play nice: a two-part ...