The sponginess of the environment where human embryonic stem cells are growing affects the type of specialized cells they eventually become, a study shows. The researchers coaxed human embryonic stem ...

A new study reveals that McDonald’s chicken nuggets are not only unhealthy for you, but also contain ingredients that are found in Silly Putty. According to a published report by CNN, the world wide ...

Stem cells growing in a plush, carpet-like environment made up of "threads" of a Silly Putty ingredient, polydimethylsiloxane--Courtesy of Ye Tao, Rose Anderson, Yubing Sun, and Jianping Fu A softer, ...

Instructables user [killbox] seems to have come across a process that actually makes magnetic silly putty “better”, depending on your specific needs. He had tons of fun making a batch of magnetic ...

Welcome to PopSci’s at-home science projects series. On weekdays at noon, we’ll be posting new projects that use ingredients you can buy at the grocery store. Show us how it went by tagging your ...

Children from the age of 3 know that Silly Putty is amazing stuff. It bounces, breaks, flows and can transfer images from newspaper to other surfaces. But a research team at the University of Michigan ...

ANN ARBOR—The sponginess of the environment where human embryonic stem cells are growing affects the type of specialized cells they eventually become, a University of Michigan study shows. The ...

The University of Michigan researchers coaxed human embryonic stem cells to turn into working spinal cord cells more efficiently by growing the cells on a soft, utrafine carpet made of a key ...