Science Siblings Paige and Adam Jacobson are giving us a new science experiment to do over winter break, make a homemade lava lamp. First you’ll take your baking soda and pour it in the bottom of your ...

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The lava lamp usually gets a bum rap as some kind of lowbrow psychedelic entertainment system for people who are too strung out to enjoy any stimulation of real substance. But the lazy loafing sources ...

Since it tends to be associated with the shaga- delic 1970s, it is hard to believe the lava lamp is celebrating its 40th birthday. But although it seems somewhat younger, the ultimate retro “light ...

Regular lava lamps haven’t been unironically cool in decades, but technologists keep finding new and exciting ways to update them for the 21st century. Recently, we covered the way that Silicon Valley ...

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What is the best lava lamp? It seems that no matter how much culture changes, there’s always a demand for the retro, which is why the playful visuals of a lava lamp never seem to go out of style.

Hypnotic and gooey, fluidly forming and reforming in an endlessly electric acid-tinged fluorescent kaleidoscope of light, lava lamps for decades mesmerized the stoned and the sober alike. Now Lava ...