Another day, another cool-looking chemistry experiment. This time around, the chemists involved are using a little-known property of oxygen to build an oxygen bridge between two magnets. If you are ...

A liquid oxygen droplet flattens, rushes back and forth, and then seems to be caught in an invisible trap in the above video. Why does this happen? There are two phenomena at work here: the ...

In this arrangement, oxygen (which boils at 92 K) condenses out of the air into the liquid nitrogen. Liquid oxygen is sufficiently paramagnetic that it can be pulled into the high-field region between ...

Throw water into a hot pan, and it will sizzle so fast that the drops actually levitate across the surface. Physicists have now taken this phenomenon, called the Leidenfrost effect, a step further: ...

A team of experts at the University of Warwick has demonstrated a novel method of producing oxygen in microgravity involving magnets. The magnets are used to attract bubbles of gas in one area where ...

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