Forget about old waxy lava lamps and take a look at this magnetic version. It contains a magnetic liquid - a ferrofluid - that can be controlled from the outside of the lamp using solid magnets. By ...

If we give you terms like Brownian motion, nano technology and ferromagnetic fluid, you'd probably brush them aside as complicated science terms, better kept under the lid. However, if we represent ...

The complete list of ingredients in the "Lava-lamp" is a company secret, but they are, fundamentally, coloured wax in coloured water. Invented by Edward Craven Walker in 1963, the idea originated from ...

The ferrofluid lava lamp combines classic ambient lighting with magnetic fluid dynamics - inside the glass, a dark, magnetically-responsive liquid forms animated spikes and shapes when you bring ...

It’s not exactly an accident that so few people have a clear idea of what’s inside a lava lamp, as manufacturers are notoriously tight-lipped about their top-secret recipes. Having said that, knowing ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The lava lamp glooped its way into pop culture history with its ascending and descending blobs of wax. Although some lava lamp science is known, there are still a few mysteries that only its makers ...

When Imre Jánosi’s teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd Eötvös University in ...

nepalnepal — Call them `60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British shelves 50 years ago on ...

Call them '60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British shelves 50 years ago on Tuesday. A British ...