Here is a clever water fountain in Japan. What did I notice at first? Look at the spaces that make the letters as they fall. They get bigger. Why? How about we start with a slightly simpler case.

Chocolate fountains are mesmerizing. And anything that looks that beautiful and can cover ordinary food into chocolaty-covered goodness is a contender for one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments.

When most people look at a chocolate fountain in a restaurant or maybe at a party, they are mostly thinking about all the yummy treats they can dunk into the liquid-chocolate curtain. But when a ...

You may have fleetingly wondered why the curtain of molten chocolate pulls inwards as it cascades over a chocolate fountain. But now the 'mystery' has been solved by a mathematics student - and it ...

Ever looked at a chocolate fountain and wondered why the flowing chocolate slopes inward, instead of falling straight down? Adam Townsend and Dr. Helen Wilson from the University College London ...

A mathematics student has worked out the secrets of how chocolate behaves in a chocolate fountain, answering the age-old question of why the falling 'curtain' of chocolate surprisingly pulls inwards ...

Chocolate fountains are a revelation. Observe: But it turns out that they can be great tools for studying basic math. In a paper published Tuesday in the European Journal of Physics, researchers from ...

A mathematics student has worked out the secrets of how chocolate behaves in a chocolate fountain, answering the age-old question of why the falling 'curtain' of chocolate surprisingly pulls inwards ...