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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First, in my defense I was just making a model based on the data I had. Of course, I am talking about my first super bounce ball post. Just to get you up to speed, I wanted to see how fast you would ...

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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 ...

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 ...

POOLER, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A high school student in the Savannah area recently broke a rather unusual world record. He didn’t just barely beat the previous mark; he absolutely crushed it. 17-year-old ...

DENVER — A toy ball that skips on water far easier than the best skipping stone is the inspiration for a line of research that's caught the attention of the U.S. Navy. The Waboba (named for its ...