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10 Reasons to Wish You Had an Endless Supply of Liquid Nitrogen

In a perfect world, all faucets have three knobs: hot, cold, and liquid nitrogen. We’re not there (yet!) but these ten little party tricks from The King of Random are the perfect reason to wish we were. To be fair, some of the applications are better than others. Self-inflating balloons can’t hold a candle to…

Tech News Eric Limer

Watch as this liquid nitrogen pool party goes horribly wrong

A recent Jägermeister pool party in Mexico turned to panic after organizers poured four buckets of liquid nitrogen into the water, sending eight to hospital and leaving one partygoer in a coma. As you’ll see in this video, things got ugly pretty quick. In what undoubtedly seemed like a good idea at the time, the…

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Watch Flowers Dipped in Liquid Nitrogen Get Smashed in Slow Motion

If you’re a human, you’ve probably always been fascinated with liquid nitrogen. The freezing temperature. The sweet smoking effect. Hell, even the container that held liquid nitrogen was cool. And if you combine liquid nitrogen with slow motion, things get even better. Watch flowers and fruit get dipped into liquid nitrogen and then smashed into…

Tech News Casey Chan

Freeze Your Target In Its Tracks With a Liquid Nitrogen Gun

Wired had a chance to play with what looks like one of the most entertaining but dangerous-looking contraptions you can easily get your hands on. Designed for use by responsible professionals like doctors, researchers, and even avant-garde chefs, the Brymill Cry-Ac 3 is capable of firing a blast of liquid nitrogen that instantly freezes its…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Shattered Raspberries Are Coolest Slow-Mo Snack

Fruit and cereal, it’s a tried and true combo. You might even venture to call it boring. But damned if there’s anything—anything—that can’t be improved with a little liquid nitrogen and super slow-motion. Chefsteps shows off the technique in this snazzy little video featuring, what else, but icy raspberries shattering in slow motion like a…

Tech News Eric Limer

How liquid nitrogen can make things explode

We know that by heating things up can make them explode. How about by cooling them down? For those of you who doubt that you can make something explode by cooling it, just grab some white erasers and liquid nitrogen. Then stand back. Things explode because the contents inside them suddenly expand to be a…

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A Girl’s Stomach Was Removed Because She Drank a Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail

When you’re celebrating your birthday, it’s completely normal to get a little crazy! Everybody does it. So you have to feel sorry for poor Gaby Scanlon, a British teenager, who ended her 18th birthday night with an emergency operation to remove her stomach. What? It’s because she drank a cocktail that had liquid nitrogen. As…

Health Casey Chan

What Happens When You Combine Liquid Nitrogen with 1500 Ping Pong Balls?

A massive explosion, bro. That’s what you get. If you want to fast forward to the good parts, I’d suggest starting somewhere around 3:45. Though to be honest, hearing Professor Roy Lowry of Plymouth talk about the explosive potential of liquid nitrogen in its gaseous state is pretty damn interesting. [YouTube via Neatorama]

Tech News Casey Chan

Flowers + Liquid Nitrogen = Beautiful Shattered Brilliance

We can’t get enough of this series of images by photographer John Shireman, who combines beatiful flowers, dead-simple composition and a rather creative use of liquid nitrogen to produce some of the most striking floral portraits we’ve ever seen. First Shireman photographs an attractive flower against a stark white backdrop. The effect is fetching, but…

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Why a Broken Light Bulb Stays Lit If You Dip It In Liquid Nitrogen

Most of us think of liquid nitrogen as an extinguishing force, but it can, at times, rage against the dying of the light . . . bulb. Find out why a smashed light bulb stays lit if it’s dipped in liquid nitrogen. Smash a light bulb and it goes out — that much we learned…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Having your body shattered like a frozen liquid Terminator is good for the Earth

There are a lot of ways to deal with a person’s body after he or she is done using it. Their last remains can be buried, burned, put in trees, or donated to science. But one Swedish company has a different approach to sending people off to their final rewards. Freeze drying. Just like the…

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You can safely stick your hand in liquid nitrogen…but you probably shouldn’t

Liquid nitrogen is famously one of the world’s coldest substances, freezing and shattering anything it comes into contact with. But if you know what you’re doing, you can safely stick your hand in it – as one brave blogger demonstrated. Of course, before we get to the awesome footage of Popular Science blogger Theodore Grey…

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Ultra Icy Beer Stein Designed by Cryogenics Technician

“It’s quite common to fill one with liquid nitrogen, let it sit on the lab bench, and when you come back three days later there will still be liquid nitrogen in it. Now imagine what it can do for beer.” That’s the sales pitch behind these lab-certified beer steins fashioned from Pope Scientific bench-top Dewar…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Don’t Bring Laptops to Class or Else

Some people may ask why a physics professor used liquid nitrogen to freeze and shatter a laptop against the floor, just to tell students that laptops were prohibited in class. Personally, I think that’s cool, but I have another question: What is Dr. Egon Spengler doing working as a physics professor at the University of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Alton Brown: Safe and Scary Kitchen Hacks

Alton Brown famously disdains spending money on “unitaskers” and other kitchen gadgets, when you can just as easily (and far more cheaply) get by with what’s around the house. Here’s what happened when I asked about his favorite hacks. Tell me about your favorite home kitchen hacks. I don’t set out to devise hacks every…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Wylie Dufresne: Cookie-Covered Ice Cream Balls Made in Liquid Nitrogen

A couple of weeks ago, I went to visit chef Wylie Dufresne at his restaurant wd~50, and he showed me his toys and the food that he makes with said toys. Wylie Dufresne is one of the preeminent experimental chefs in America. He deconstructs the food that we’re familiar with and then, using tools and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow

The Cloud Project is a tricky little concept that would spray flavored condensation and liquid nitrogen into clouds, “seeding” them, and forcing flavored snow to fall from the heavens. It’s pretty much straight of of a children’s book. The whole thing is purely conceptual for now; it involves certain bacteria and ice nucleation and a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

10 Reasons to Wish You Had an Endless Supply of Liquid Nitrogen

Watch as this liquid nitrogen pool party goes horribly wrong

Watch Flowers Dipped in Liquid Nitrogen Get Smashed in Slow Motion

Freeze Your Target In Its Tracks With a Liquid Nitrogen Gun

Shattered Raspberries Are Coolest Slow-Mo Snack

How liquid nitrogen can make things explode

A Girl’s Stomach Was Removed Because She Drank a Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail

What Happens When You Combine Liquid Nitrogen with 1500 Ping Pong Balls?

Flowers + Liquid Nitrogen = Beautiful Shattered Brilliance

Why a Broken Light Bulb Stays Lit If You Dip It In Liquid Nitrogen

Having your body shattered like a frozen liquid Terminator is good for the Earth

You can safely stick your hand in liquid nitrogen…but you probably shouldn’t

Ultra Icy Beer Stein Designed by Cryogenics Technician

Don’t Bring Laptops to Class or Else

Alton Brown: Safe and Scary Kitchen Hacks

Wylie Dufresne: Cookie-Covered Ice Cream Balls Made in Liquid Nitrogen

The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow

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