The lava lamp usually gets a bum rap as some kind of lowbrow psychedelic entertainment system for people who are too strung out to enjoy any stimulation of real substance. But the lazy loafing sources ...

Nick Hatsios and Brendan Adamski are just 10, but well on their way to careers in science, technology, engineering or math. The boys were among those in grades 4-8 at Thursday’s workshop on Lava Lamp ...

Fifty years ago, Edward Craven Walker turned a neat idea into a global phenomenon, making the world a way more psychedelic place along the way. In September 1963, Walker was inspired by an oil and ...

If we got a mobile phone charm for every phone charm we ever saw, then we'd have a lot of phone charms. Most don't pass the Crave test, which is why you never hear about them. This one from Mathmos, ...

Like many projects, this one started with a harmless question. “Will lava lamps work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter?”. Well, as it turns out, this harmless question was not so easily ...

Everyone gets the same wonder and curiosity when seeing a lava lamp in action, but how does it work? Well, the mechanisms involved are centred around the idea that denser fluids settle under lighter ...

Ten years ago, when the idea to erect a 50-tall lava lamp near Soap Lake, Wash., was first floated, the response was, let’s say, mixed. Target had a very huge, very real lava lamp that the company ...