Six second science is short and mind-bendingly cool

Usually when a new social network comes out, no-one really knows what to do with it. But there's something very cool going on over on Vine, the short video service: #6SecondScience.

Sponsored by General Electric, the idea is to just have an internet science fair, with people uploading awesome little time-lapse science experiments that last six seconds each.

Here's a few of the coolest one's we've seen, but you can find them all by searching Twitter for #6SecondScience.

I did not know you could do this with eggs and microwaves.

POTATO POWER

TURN AN EGG TO RUBBER

COLOUR RUN

LIGHT BULB WIZARDRY

MAKING QUICKSAND

INSTRUCTIONS FOR A PENCIL BATTERY

MOVING MAGNETS

POUR A TOWER OF ICE

MAGIC ARROWS

MAKE A LAVA LAMP

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MICROWAVE SOAP