Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange new state that shouldn’t exist. Scientists have discovered that a liquid does not always behave the way it seems. Even when a material is fully ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from ...

In a quiet corner of low-temperature physics, researchers have stumbled on a phase of matter that seems to break one of the field’s unwritten rules: it works without well-defined particles. Instead of ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

Physicists are rapidly expanding the traditional menu of matter beyond solids, liquids, gases and plasmas, uncovering exotic ...

Missions and Discoveries. Artemis II Mission: Astronauts to Orbit the Moon. Get ready, space fans! NASA’s Artemis II mission is gearing up to send four astron ...

Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a ...

What happens if liquefied natural gas (LNG) hits the wall of the cargo tanks in a ship? New research from the team of ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

The joint NOvA-T2K analysis achieved unprecedented precision in measuring neutrino mass, a key step toward understanding water origin.

These newly discovered spinning crystals twist, break, and heal themselves, revealing a strange new side of solid matter.