Space Station Live: Floatin’ Molten Metal

NASA Public Affairs Officer Amiko Kauderer talks with Dr. Douglas Matson of Tufts University about the Electromagnetic Levitator, a piece of physics experiment hardware operating in the station’s Columbus laboratory. The EML is a furnace that can heat metals to more than 2000 degrees Celsius and then cool them rapidly, and by doing so in a weightless environment—with the samples suspended in mid-air—allows scientists to more clearly observe some of the complex core processes of physics. Watch Space Station Live, weekdays at 11am eastern. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv...