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Soap Bubbles Become Terrifying Magnetic Ooze

August 31, 2011 | Kim Pimmel is a designer, filmmaker, and inventor whose Compressed series taps the science of magnetism, capillary action, and fluid dynamics to create gorgeous cinematic time-lapse videos that look out of this world. He explains how he used soap and ferrofluid to create this one in an interview with The Atlantic. More

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