Marble and Sand Creates a New State of Matter

An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience has a story about a surprisingly simple experiment (yes, you can try this at home) at room temperature that yielded a jet of sand that behaves similar to jets created in ultra-dense gas near absolute zero. From the article: 'We're discovering a new type of fluid state that seems to exist in this combination of gas--air in this case--and a dense arrangement of particles.'"

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Not very impressive

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Not to be critical or trolling or anything, but scientists simply just caught a glimpse of something cool that lasts for miliseconds at best. I'm all for science that has the very shred of potential to be something beneficial to society, but this is stretching it. Cool yes, but front page worthy? I disagree

Cooler things are obtained with water and corn starch mixed, and that you can truely replicate at home. http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/cornstarch/