In late February 2017, news stories about homemade "slime" (a mixture of white glue, water, sodium borate, and food coloring causing a purported shortage of Elmer's Glue were popular on social media: ...

Green slime is that gooey non-Newtonian fluid you may remember from childhood science experiments or Nickelodeon television shows. It’s fluorescent, somehow sticky and springy at the same time, and ...