{"id":3926939,"date":"2026-07-13T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/oobleck-droplets-reveal-5-ways-cornstarch-goo-behaves-when-hitting-water\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:04:16","slug":"oobleck-droplets-reveal-5-ways-cornstarch-goo-behaves-when-hitting-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/oobleck-droplets-reveal-5-ways-cornstarch-goo-behaves-when-hitting-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Oobleck droplets reveal 5 ways cornstarch &#8216;goo&#8217; behaves when hitting water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cornstarch can thicken soup or serve as a base for a DIY shampoo, but there&#8217;s more to the humble pantry staple. Given the right conditions, it seems to defy the laws of physics. Mixing cornstarch with water creates &#8220;oobleck&#8221;\u2014a shape-shifting substance classified as a non-Newtonian fluid that changes states when subjected to a force.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-oobleck-droplets-reveal-ways-cornstarch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornstarch can thicken soup or serve as a base for a DIY shampoo, but there&#8217;s more to the humble pantry staple. Given the right conditions, it seems to defy the laws of physics. Mixing cornstarch with water creates &#8220;oobleck&#8221;\u2014a shape-shifting substance classified as a non-Newtonian fluid that changes states when subjected to a force. <\/p>\n<p>Go [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}