Watch all of this video. It's astounding.

[ That's fucking cool. -k]

Living Cornstarch

huh. supersolid is an odd name for something that's actually barely solid, even at near absolute zero, but there could be some interesting physics here.

Glimpse of a new type of matter: Frozen helium has been turned into a solid that behaves like a superfluid.

Sweet!

optics.org - News - Lasers turn cheese into art (December 2003)

] Three years ago, researchers created a light pulse that
] appeared to defy nature’s fundamental speed limit—it
] traveled faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. If
] it were possible to transmit information at such speeds,
] Einstein’s theory of relativity would be in tatters, and
] the principle of causality—the idea that cause must
] always come before effect—would go out the window.

Science news articles, Discover Magazine subscriptions, Science magazines online - Discover.ComScore Another Win for Albert Einstein

] Scientists have found a sub-atomic particle they cannot
] explain using current theories of energy and matter.

huh.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists find mystery particle

very nice.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Water sparks new power source