Oddly, some water droplets hitting a surface bounce without ever actually touching it. New research explains why that is.

The "Cheerio effect," a phenomenon that causes small objects to cluster on the surface of a liquid, could help design small aquatic robots, researchers say.

A new way to print conductive metal onto all sorts of surfaces such as gelatin and rose petals could lead to new kinds of flexible electronics.

The dressing on your last salad may be a good example of what's happens with the Earth's magnetic fields.

In the Leidenfrost effect, water droplets don't evaporate on a hot surface, but instead dance and skitter or explode. Now we know why.

When the conditions are right, granular materials can act a lot like water or oil, which could help with drug manufacturing.

Scientists have figured out how to prevent water from freezing, even at extreme temperatures as low as -263 degrees Celsius.

A bizarre class of molecules may play a role in disease: proteins that cluster together to form spherical droplets inside human cells.

Heating liquid metal turned it into a plasma, but the strangest bit is what happened to its physics.

Predicting how liquid droplets move and splatter could help investigators draw better clues from crime scenes.