Misleading titles – real science, false impression

Science breakthroughs are exciting. They change our lives, they hold the promise for a better world.Sometimes the explanation is straight forward, and can be easily understood by most people, even if they don't have any related background.But sometimes, in the process of trying to convey breakthrough research to the ordinary person, editors (or bloggers, or...

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Pool party gone scientifically wrong

Can liquid nitrogen react with the hypochloric acid in the swimming pool (which is the chemical form in which we use chlorine in pool water)?Some people seems to think so.... and newspapers seem to publish this nonsense:http://www.news.com.au/world-news/liquid-nitrogen-stunt-at-jagermeister-party-in-mexico-leaves-a-man-in-coma/story-fndir2ev-1226666959021Lets get the fact right this time:Nitrogen, in our case is the molecular form of nitrogen N-N or N2...

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