IT’S SPRING and I haven’t seen a single kid playing marbles. Yo-yos, yes. The kids still swing through the neighborhood “rocking the cradle” and “walking the dog.” Some of the girls are even playing ...

A liquid marble is an otherworldly combination of liquid and solid. Shaped like a solid marble but with many properties of a liquid, these strange objects were introduced in a 2001 Nature article and ...

Handcrafted marbles are beautiful, and they take a lot of work to make. Pieces of glass are colored and layered on top of each other while being crafted into a perfectly spherical shape. Thanks to our ...

The big quit. The great resignation. Whatever you want to call it, millions are leaving their jobs. We’re doing a series about people who have followed their calling. You can tell us about yours below ...

“Gas marbles” have been created by encapsulating a bubble of gas within a shell of tiny plastic particles. Developed by Yousra Timounay and colleagues at the Université Paris-Est (UPE) in France, the ...

George tries to make a new discovery in a huge field of science... and he might have. A liquid marble is an otherworldly combination of liquid and solid. Shaped like a solid marble but with many ...