If you grew up pre-Y2K, chances are you’re familiar with the concept of a lava lamp. It’s much less likely that you’ve ever encountered a lamp made out of literal lava. That’s the basic description of ...

Want to turn on, tune in, and drop out? The lava lamp is your go-to device. Hailing from the same era as the famous Timothy Leary quote, this hippy, trippy lamp, with its slowly undulating globules, ...

Here are tips to make your own lava lamp. The steps are easy, the materials are cheap and the payoff is fun for the kiddos. 1. Fill your bottle about 75 percent full with vegetable oil. 2. Fill ...

The ferrofluid lava lamp combines classic ambient lighting with magnetic fluid dynamics - inside the glass, a dark, magnetically-responsive liquid forms animated spikes and shapes when you bring ...

Polymers that repel each other can spontaneously phase-separate inside artificial vesicles, like oils in a lava lamp. Interaction between droplets and the cell wall limits the size of the droplets and ...

Perhaps it’s the conical shape of the vessel, or the gentle blue glow emitted by the material within, or the way the small flecks of solid drift about as they precipitate out of solution. Either way, ...

The lava lamp has existed for 60-plus years. It’s never looked like this Dutch artist and designer Sabine Marcelis took the lava lamp from groovy to moody with this limited-edition redesign.