This corralled supercooled liquid relies on the surprising property that some atoms in a liquid remain stationary regardless ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging ...

Scientists unveil a solid electrolyte that moves lithium as fast as liquids, promising safer, fast-charging batteries.

The Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM), a unit of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) under the ...

Sometimes papers are published that overturn the conventional wisdom. Other times papers are retracted since what they ...

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule becomes surrounded by a restless crowd of water molecules. Inside living ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s inner core may not be fully solid. A rare “superionic” state of matter could explain ...

Explore how new modules, racks, and specialized facilities on NASA’s International Space Station expanded research potential, enabling diverse experiments in microgravity and increasing access for ...

Within an international collaboration, an experimental research team of LENS investigated vortex dynamics in strongly ...

Studying ice grains in a cryogenically cooled plasma, Caltech scientists have observed how fluffy particles defy gravity and distribute themselves—insights that could be useful in computer-chip ...

Despite the similarities, Langmuir emphasised that this pump was fundamentally different from Gaede’s; the cold walls of the ...