Perhaps you remember the iconic quicksand scenes from 1987's "The Princess Bride" and 1984's "The Neverending Story" — any child who watched these was forever terrified of swamps, quicksand ...

A woman was enjoying a walk on the beach with her husband when it became a scene that seemed out of ... They found out it was quicksand – but not the kind of quicksand in the movies.

Greg Foot investigates quicksand and discovers why it's so dangerous. Practical experiments show that quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid that can behave as both a solid and a liquid. The reasons ...