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Rapid Test Could Tell You If There’s Salmonella in Your Chicken
Scientists in Canada say they’ve developed a cheap and easy way to find out Salmonella is lurking in food. Their method can apparently detect the bacteria within an hour’s time and with less set-up required than a typical at-home covid test. They believe that their test could be used by poultry processors and food preparers…
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Pouring Molten Copper On Antifreeze Engine Coolant Is Pretty Spectacular
Video: It’s basically the war of the worlds. Heaven and hell smashing themselves together. A song of ice and fire. It’s molten copper vs antifreeze engine coolant. That hot golden orange glow being poured onto the radioactive slimy green antifreeze. What happens? A lot! The antifreeze starts shooting out bolts as the burn from the…
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This Magic Liquid Is Somehow Also A Solid
It’s not supposed to be that hard to figure out if something is liquid or if something is solid. If it flows like water, it’s liquid. If it stays relatively still, it’s solid. But what if it’s a substance that breaks the laws of normal behaviour and is both liquid and solid? Like non-Newtonian fluids?
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This Crazy Machine Let Astronauts Experiment With Fluids 30 Years Ago
It might look more like an engine from an ageing car than a piece of engineering fit for space, but this machine was a pioneering piece of apparatus that allowed astronauts to experiment with fluids in space.