Five Reasons to Keep Scientists Around
Hey those guys in the white lab coats can sometimes be as boring to me as for anyone, but you’ve got to hand it to them when they cook up some really fun stuff. Fluids that become solid when you hit them (dilitants), auxetic materials that get thicker when you stretch them out, superfluids that have no friction and can flow right up the sides of a container, and ferrofluids that are liquids with tiny metals in them and can float in magnetic fields.
If you’d like to see videos of these crazy materials in action, check out The Stuff of Dreams by New Scientist. Here is a teaser video of ferrofluids in action to get you started…