A hiker was rescued from quicksand last week in Arches National Park, reigniting long-dormant fears of a geologic phenomenon ...

If stumbling into quicksand ranks on your list of worries, don't panic. You won't sink in—at least not all the way. Real quicksand is certainly hard to get out of, but it doesn't suck people under the ...

Are you looking for an affordable science experiment to do with the children? Here's one that's not only affordable, but that will teach you how to make a batch of homemade quicksand by using a few ...

Although horror films frequently depict victims disappearing in quicksand, the truth is much tamer. People cannot fully sink into this type of soil, and laboratory simulations now bear out this little ...

I wonder if the same setup and experiment could be performed using 99% water. Lizards already run on water, after all. In other words, at what point is water going to behave identically? Click to ...

Makes me think of MythBusters, where they tried to run on a cornstarch mixture that sounds just like what they used here. There's also insects that walk on water by taking advantage of surface tension ...