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  • Water hitting a really hot pan at 3000 frames per second

    I just came across this really awesome video of the Leidenfrost effect that I thought you guys would be interested in.  It shows a drop of water dancing in a really hot pan for a long period of time without evaporating.  Rather than go into all of the details of the Leidenfrost effect here, I recommend…

  • NASA’s Fermi detects antimatter emitted from thunderstorms

    According to NASA, their Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected antimatter coming from thunderstorms.  Apparently the storms act like particle accelerators and as a consequence, a stream of antimatter is created.  Rather than trying to explain it myself, I will let NASA do it in this cool video below.

  • Worlds smallest periodic table is on a human hair

    It never ceases to amaze me what technology can do on a really tiny scale and this is probably one of the coolest examples I have seen.  Scientists at Nottingham University have created what they believe to be the worlds smallest periodic table and it is located on a human hair.  The table is so…