An elastic ball that bounces on water, the Waboba, flattens like a pancake when it hits the water surface, increasing its lift and propelling it upward. DENVER — A toy ball that skips on water far ...

A Waboba is a ball that bounces on water (water bouncing ball, geddit?). That makes it kind of unusual since a simple experiment will show that many balls do not bounce on water. And that raises an ...

Skipping stones across the water surface can be tricky. So why is it so easy to get such impressive water-skipping performance from an elastic ball? Researchers say they have answers that may reveal a ...

Scientists at Utah State University have figured out how to make the perfect skipping stones. The secret was making sure they were made out of a material that had much more give than stone. Inspired ...

April 14, 2008 It has the consistency of breast implant, a lycra coating and unlike any ball prior to now, it bounces on water. The slight change to one of man’s oldest playthings, offers an entirely ...

POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - A high schooler in our area recently broke a pretty off-the-wall world record. He didn’t just barely beat the previous mark, he absolutely crushed it. I caught up with him to ...

Engineers have spent decades studying super-hydrophobic surfaces because of the plethora of real-life applications. And while some of this research has resulted in commercial products that keep shoes ...

Physicists have found a way to tweak a basic law of nature, and have reversed the rule that opposites--as in oppositely charged droplets of liquid--attract. Typically, when a drop of liquid with a ...