This particular C-130 is the so called "Fat Albert" belonging to the Blue Angels. It's very cool to see this beast take off almost vertically like a jet does with its afterburners. Enjoy!

Here's a really interesting video on how to make a 245mW laser using nothing else than a DVD burner, and a flashlight. At 245mW it can light matches and pop balloons pretty easy, so be careful if you decide to do it at home!

If you've got the patience to cut 30,000 match heads, and put them all together, then you too, can be the proud witness of this match bomb! I guess it doesn't get much better than this without alerting the FBI !

Here's a pretty cool power plant substation exploding after it burns for a few seconds. This happened in Miami, Florida at Ives Dairy substation. The substation's transformers are in oil (for it to manage to dissipate all the heat), so when you mix hot oil with high voltage you get a spectacular boom! Enjoy!

Here's a video test of what happens when you remove the CPU fan and cooler from different models of CPU's from both AMD and Intel. I actually know a guy who did this "experiment" on an AMD Athlon and ended up in smoke. The test in this video is made while running Quake 3 on CPU's that are in most PCs nowadays! So remember: never ever remove the CPU fan and cooler!

Some clips of Thermite from Brainiac science abuse. Thermite burns at around 4000 °F (2500 °C) and can cut just about anything. Watch it destroy anything in its path! Cool.

Lol. I've got to say I've had collegues that did stuff very very similar to this. Actually, they've gone so far to talking all the papers written by the students and burning them Now that's way cooler! Enjoy!

This guy, tried to smash a can of WD40 cleaner. The hit generated by the compression of the liquid inside the can made it explode into flames, and spread burning liquid everywhere. It's a good alternative for Napalm! So...don't try this at home!

A man decided he would light a piano on fire, and play it until there was nothing to play. Where else, but in Japan something like this could happen Interesting idea.

Match 1 of 5 . If you have some time to burn, and are familiar with the Starcraft game, then it will most certainly enjoy this match! Where else would this take place than in Korrea? Have fun!

I actually don't think this is an effective way to drive cars, but it actually depends on the amount of energy which that wave generator requires, and how much energy it is produced by burning that salt water. In other words, some data about the efficiency of the whole apparatus, should be mentioned!

This thing rocks. It's the coolest and newest invention in fire fighting technology. It uses 2 powerful Mig-21 turbines mounted on a Russian tank to blow the water. The video demonstrates how it can be used to extinguish burning oil wells (like the ones in Iraq in '91). Simply awesome.

Cool experiment using an egg and a candle. The result is that you can see the inside of the egg just like an X-Ray (without the radiation ). Pretty amazing for such a simple experiment! X-Ray An Egg - video powered by Metacafe

This tree made the mistake of toughing those high voltage wires. This lead to an electric arc to be formed between the tree and the wires. This arc, eventually vaporized the tree sap and burned the tree in half. Pretty spectacular show! Enjoy!

His dragster became airborne, split in two and became a massive fireball. What's more amazing, the guy walks out with only a slight burn to the tip of his finger Simply wow!

A very cool chain reaction, created, probably, by an arsonist It centers every step around fire and mini-explosions. It ends, in a very spectacular fashion, but I won't give it away here, because it really is special. Enjoy!

This study researched killing cancer cells with nano-magnets, with the same principle as a microwave oven. The study of nano-particles applied to biomedicine continues to give interesting results, as research is still in its infancy. Through their work, the chemists from the university of Cagliari are now investigating some of the possibilities opened by this field. One is to use magnetic particles to convey the drugs only to the diseased cells, the other is to drive up the tumor and then force them to oscillate under the control of a variable magnetic field, thereby heating the target cells, just like a microwave oven does with the water molecules contained in food. This second mechanism exploits hyperthermia. It appears that cancer cells can be destroyed by beeing brought to a temperature of 42.5 degrees Celsius for about half an hour. In order arrive at the place desired, the particles must be incorporated into liposomes, hollow microspheres formed by lipid bilayers (for which reason they are called "magneto-liposomes"), which are able to overcome the barrier of cells. They must have a diameter of about 20 nanometers. Larger could indeed block blood vessels, while smaller particles may be "eaten" by macrophage cells which are in charge with the elimination of foreign bodies. Currently, the research team is working on the synthesis of particles and study of their structural and magnetic properties. Currently these are being built in oxide of iron or iron cobalt. The latter are more manoeuvrable, because their magnetic properties depend strongly on the direction along which the field is applied to (property known as magnetic anisotropy).