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Leidenfrost effect
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The Leidenfrost effect: Levitating droplets bounce off each other

Known as the triple Leidenfrost effect, when two different liquids are placed on a hot enough surface, they will levitate and bounce off one another.

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Three cloudy mineral rocks are set against a black background

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Physicists have created a new type of diamond by crushing buckyballs

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Water Drops Macro Shot. Leidenfrost effect.

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Watch droplets bounce off each other as they levitate on a hot plate

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Blue laser light being used in experiment

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Strange quantum effect predicted 30 years ago has now been observed

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Humans

13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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WHY is there something rather than nothing?

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Why is there something not nothing? The big bang isn鈥檛 the only answer

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WHY is the universe intelligible? X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. DiStefano, et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/Grendler

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Why is the universe intelligible? Things aren鈥檛 as clear as we think

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WHY is quantum theory so strange? Out of Your Mind Science series. Design made of spiral of human silhouette face line and abstract elements on the subject of consciousness, the mind, artificial intelligence and technology

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Why is quantum theory so strange? The weirdness could be in our heads

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WHY is there a cosmic speed limit?

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Why is there a cosmic speed limit? It could even be why we’re here

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WHY does time only move forward?

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Why does time only move forwards? Possibly just because we鈥檙e ignorant

The one-way flow of time is one of the great mysteries of physics. It might be that we see causes and effects just because our information about reality is incomplete

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Life

Why is the universe just right for life? Blame the multiverse

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The quantum experiment that could prove reality doesn’t exist

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Physicists fail to find mysterious ‘sterile neutrino’ particles

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Can Einstein鈥檚 forgotten theory of space solve the cosmology crisis?

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