A synthetically grown Bismuth crystal.
The science of rockets explained through soda bottles and slow motion photography
Materials scientist and Christmas Lecturer Mark Miodownik demonstrates some of the weird properties of ferrofluid.
This liquid is literally ‘dripping with magnetism’, containing a suspension of ferromagnetic nanoparticles that make the liquid responsive to external magnetic fields, generating unusual patterns, shapes and motion.
Graphene is cool and all, but it has one fatal flaw

For the past couple years, graphene has found to be the superest of supermaterials over and over again in lab tests. But this carbon formation seems to have a major structural flaw— where the carbon atoms are lined up in near perfect hexagonal patterns, the stuff is super strong, but at the edges, or where the hexagonal pattern is not as perfect, it’s brittle as hell.
Afternoon science: Fun with nitrogen trilodide
Nitrogen Triiodide is an extremely sensitive explosive compound that, when dry, can be detonated by the lightest of touches or vibrations. As Dr Peter Wothers initiates the reaction, the Nitrogen Triiodide detonates incredibly quickly in a fraction of a second to release a purple cloud of iodine vapour into the room.
Devised to promote the 2012 Christmas Lectures, this is one of three large-scale, chemistry demos that were too big (or too dangerous!) to perform in the Ri Lecture Theatre in front of 400 young people.
Let’s Watch Neil Patrick Harris Inhale Sulfur Hexaflouride
Helium’s evil twin makes for great Buffalo Bill impressions. Science.
Could you replace drinking water with beer?

Beer, an alcohol in general can cause dehydration, but with the right kind of beer, could you completely replace drinking water with just drinking beer? These are the kinds of questions that science is here to answer.
This is what happens when you drop a ball of hot nickel into a pot of honey. In case you were wondering.
Respect the chemistry with this awesome periodic table brass bracelet
Musical chemistry of the day: “All Along the Skeletal Chemical”
A voyage along the chemical molecular structures. From the infamous Aspartame to baneful Warfarin, from the comfortable Benzocaine to the inhuman Nandrolone.
In the future, nanocapsules could stop your drunkenness cold

Right now, if you’re too drunk to do anything, you may not have a lot of options other than finding someone to drive you home and sleep it off. In the lab, an injection of nanocapsules has shown to stop drunkenness in mice with a quickness, which could lead to the development of a drug that would quickly get rid of alcohol impairment in humans.
More miracles of graphene: Building artificial muscles

Seems like every few weeks, someone finds some new amazing thing graphene can do. This time, it looks like the ever-magical and wondrous carbon configuration may be able to create the artificial muscles of the future.
Quantum Life: How Physics Can Revolutionise Biology
Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili gives this fascinating lecture on the interaction between biochemistry and quantum mechanics. The topic is pretty interesting, and Jim is great at explaining some of the key ideas of quantum physics in layman’s terms.
And now, here’s a red hot ball of nickel being dropped into some water
Pop pop fizz fizz, oh how fucking cool it is.

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