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Published online 20 September 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040920-2
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Swimming in syrup is as easy as water
You can swim just as fast in a pool of gloop.
It's a question that has taxed generations of the finest minds in physics: do humans swim slower in syrup than in water? And since you ask, the answer's no. Scientists have filled a swimming pool with a syrupy mixture and proved it.
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