NMDHS Marauders

Author: R.W. Fyfe, Found Date:October 1st 2009,

Trailer for the documentary The Matter of Everything, which focuses on physicists at Fermilab.

Three Korean girls on a traditional see-saw (널뛰기) doing some extreme acrobatics

"Scientists in Russia have grown plants from fruit stored away in permafrost by squirrels over 30,000 years ago. The fruit was found in the banks of the Kolyma River in Siberia, a top site for people looking for mammoth bones."

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Several decades ago scientists discovered that the Moon, long thought to have no atmosphere, actually does have an extremely thin exosphere.

"A team at the Carnegie Institution for Science subjected the material to pressures up to 1.4 million times atmospheric pressure at sea level, and temperatures up to 2,200C. They found that it pulls off the trick of changing its electrical properties without any shifting of shape - it can be an insulator or conductor depending just on temperature and pressure. Combined with computer simulations of just what was going on with the material's electrons, the group claim that the results show a new type of metallisation. "At high temperatures, the atoms in iron oxide crystals are arranged with the same structure as common table salt," said Ronald Cohen, a co-author of the study. "Just like table salt, iron oxide at ambient conditions is a good insulator-it does not conduct electricity.""

Boiling and freezing water through changes in pressure

An Australian high voltage site with 200 projects

Professor Walter Lewin's video lecture series on electromagnetism