COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Our science experiment this week deals with water, oil and food coloring to produce what appears to be fireworks in a glass. This week's demonstration was conducted at Pine ...

Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, an engineer has developed an ...

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Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. If you are kitchen-savvy, you probably know “the water test” method for getting stainless steel pans to the right ...

What happens when you drop Mentos into Coke—but in oil instead of water? In this experiment, we test the reaction and see if the classic soda eruption works the same way in a different liquid.