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In order to have the ability to control a liquid inside a container, say an engine, in space, NASA engineered ferrofluid. Otherwise, a standard liquid inside a container without the pull of gravity to ...

Ferrofluid, the liquid invented by NASA in the 1960s as a rocket fuel, has some strange and wonderful properties. Around a magnet, it pimples into glimmering cones that dance and shrink or grow ...

Ferrofluid sounds like a concept straight from a bad science-fiction film – a black, shape-shifting metallic liquid, that moves and forms spikes using magnetic fields. But ferrofluid is not the ...

A new desk lamp is taking over from the lava lamp -- by replacing the boring old wax lava with interactive magnetic fluid. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

We haven’t found too many practical uses for ferrofluid—a mix of oil and iron particles that appears to morph and change shape when exposed to magnets—aside from fun desktop toys. So now that we’ve ...

Fluux Design Lab, based in Houston, Texas, has created an innovative new Ferrofluid display desktop toy. This intriguing gadget, when manipulated using magnets, offers countless hours of entertainment ...