If you could swim in anything, what would it be? We already know that clear putty is not fun and a pool of puppies sounds dangerous. So what about Orbeez? The superabsorbent polymers are tiny balls ...

Dipping my hand into a pool of macromolecules, aka superabsorbent polymers, aka the swimming pool I briefly installed in my apartment. Credit: THE STRANGER As we near the end of the year, we’re ...

Filling a swimming pool with tiny water balls known as Orbeez can be a colorful way to conduct science experiments. YouTubers Mark Rober and the Backyard Scientist teamed up to do just that in their ...

Would you sink or float if you were tossed into a gigantic vat of squishy gelatinous spheres, more popularly known as Orbeez? Mark Rober decided the only way to definitively answer the question that ...

In almost all circumstances you do not want to lose a bet. However, on rare occasions—if you are smart enough (like, NASA engineer smart)—you can make it so that losing is the same thing as winning, ...

I always wanted to have a pool. But I live in an apartment on the fifth floor. And I don’t have any money. Then I saw a film called Team Hurricane, which played at the Seattle International Film ...