PhysX is going to be the next step in graphic card acceleration technology. It is also going to be a strong marketing point for nVidia as soon as there are more games supporting it. Have a look at what it can do! Enjoy!

Who would've thought shampoo could me so much fun? Scientists of the University of Twente made a video of leaping shampoo. This is actually a fluid effect called Kaye effect. Some fluids in motion can manifest this interesting effect. I don't know about the practical applications of it, but it's very beautiful! Enjoy!

Fero-magnetic fluid is the stuff that Ferrari makes its car suspensions from. It's a fluid containing iron particles. When an electromagnetic force is applied to it, it tends to shape itself to the wave lines of the electromagnetic field. You can try something similar at home with some iron shavings on a plate, and a magnet underneath the plate. It's used in car suspensions because it can modify the stiffness of the ride almost instantly. Her's another use for fero-magnetic fluid, this time with beauty in mind, and less practical. Enjoy it!

A non-newtonian fluid under stress reacts as a solid. In this case they filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. Update: Liquid Armor is one of this fluid's applications.

This is kind of stupid, just thinking of the dirty water with all kinds of fluids washed from the road. It ain't my idea of fun! But, oh, well...when you're in Texas do as the Texans do.

Here's another cornstarch and water solution, which becomes a non-newtonian fluid. A Non-Newtonian fluid, has properties that cannot be described by classical fluids. In this video clip, the non-newtonian fluid is a mixture of corn starch and water.

This is a followup of Pool with non newtonian fluid. As seen there non-newtonian fluids can have different properties (fluid/liquid) depending on the stress. Here is an up-to-date application for the military: Liquid Armor. Enjoy! Liquid Armor - video powered by Metacafe

A true artist can work with any material. Here's how this Japanese artist uses ferrofluid as a form of art, proving that high-tech and art can come together beautifully. Enjoy!

For the first time there was a negative charge exactly equal to 25 percent of that unit. Research in Nature magazine. Since the electricity comes from the transport of electrons, it is logical to expect that the smallest load that can be transported is equal to the charge of a single electron. Under specific conditions, it is possible to observe portions of this fundamental unit. Even in these conditions, however, there have been observed only odd fractions of charge: third, fifth, seventh. In the last issue of Nature it was published the existence of a quasi-particle with a charge corresponding exactly a quarter of that of an electron. In particular, these unique elementary particles, which have been precisely called "quasi-particles" to their particular nature, are formed when electrons are confined in a two-dimensional system, which forces them to interact strongly with each other. It is known that when a flow of electrons is confined in a two-dimensional plan of a semiconductor and it is applied simultaneously in a strong magnetic field perpendicular to this plane, the electrons have unusual quantum properties. In a research just published in Nature, in an electron gas, two-dimensional and ultra-pure, were detected within the fluid vortexes charges carrying exactly one quarter of the charge of an electron.

Infm-Cnr and Federico II University have developed a technique ultra-miniaturized to study the behavior of red blood cells. In the film "Fantastic Journey" of 1966, to study the physiology of the human body some scientists were miniaturized and were injected with their micro-bus, in the bloodstream. Today is, in a sense, the opposite: to understand the behavior of red blood cells reproduces the circulatory network on a device the size of a chip. The device has been developed by researchers of the center Coherentia at the National Institute for Physics of Matter (Infm-Cnr) and the Department of Chemical Engineering University Federico II of Naples. Their results were presented today at the conference "The research ideas to work" in the Corsican town.