Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

Findings Solve Decades-Old Mystery About What’s Inside Uranus And Neptune In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a strange form ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A wave of recent experiments is now tearing at those boundaries, revealing ...

The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

In a quiet corner of low-temperature physics, researchers have stumbled on a phase of matter that seems to break one of the ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Researchers have identified a new physicochemical principle governing liquid–liquid phase separation in polymer solutions.

Hydrogen, a clean energy source, requires a highly reliable and safe storage system, which is currently lacking. Layered ...

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