In almost all circumstances you do not want to lose a bet. However, on rare occasions—if you are smart enough (like, NASA engineer smart)—you can make it so that losing is the same thing as winning, ...

I always wanted to have a pool. But I live in an apartment on the fifth floor. And I don't have any money. Then I saw a film called Team Hurricane, which played at the Seattle International Film ...

If you could swim in anything, what would it be? We already know that clear putty is not fun and a pool of puppies sounds dangerous. So what about Orbeez? The superabsorbent polymers are tiny balls ...

Watch YouTubers light fireworks, toss in dry ice and conduct other action-packed science experiments in a pool full of tiny water beads. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, ...

How long can you survive in a pool filled with millions of tiny Orbeez? In this wild challenge, contestants compete for a $10,000 prize by being the last to leave a pool packed with colorful, squishy ...

Would you sink or float if you were tossed into a gigantic vat of squishy gelatinous spheres, more popularly known as Orbeez? Mark Rober decided the only way to definitively answer the question that ...

Life is a series of crushing disappointments, and this is no exception: I have recently learned that Orbeez, which are tiny, absorbent polymer balls that expand to 100 times their original size when ...