Forget about old waxy lava lamps and take a look at this magnetic version. It contains a magnetic liquid - a ferrofluid - that can be controlled from the outside of the lamp using solid magnets. By ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If we give you terms like Brownian motion, nano technology and ferromagnetic fluid, you'd probably brush them aside as complicated science terms, better kept under the lid. However, if we represent ...

Call them ’60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British shelves 50 years ago on Tuesday. A British ...

It’s not exactly an accident that so few people have a clear idea of what’s inside a lava lamp, as manufacturers are notoriously tight-lipped about their top-secret recipes. Having said that, knowing ...

NOSTALGIA PROBABLY ranks somewhere near the bottom on the list of causes of kidney failure. But a 1996 report in the Annals of Emergency Medicine relays the story of a 65-year-old man who guzzled the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Call them ’60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British ...

A British company began marketing their original creation as an "exotic conversation piece" in 1963. Since then, millions of models of the much-copied invention have been sold worldwide. The design ...