The smart scientist says you shouldn’t try this at home. Apparently, the Leidenfrost effect only works for him. The Leidenfrost effect is the formation of a gas barrier between a hot surface and a ...

A word of caution if you’re planning to try this cryocooler method for making liquid nitrogen: not only does it involve toxic and flammable gasses and pressures high enough to turn the works into a ...

If you’re like us, you’ve never spent a second thinking about what happens when you dunk an ordinary LED into liquid nitrogen. That’s too bad because as it turns out, the results are pretty ...