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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you thought you knew! Mind-blowing facts you have to read to believe Did you know ...

Physicists have taken a step that sounds like science fiction: they have coaxed light into behaving as a “supersolid,” a ...

The manipulation of metals as they transform from a liquid to a solid can have immense benefits for technologies. A new study finds that the manipulation of stationary atoms in a liquid metal can ...

Scientists have discovered a new state of matter that isn't a solid, liquid, or gas. Researchers call this new type of material a 'corralled supercooled liquid'. Atoms in a liquid are normally like ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...

The phenomena of reflection and refraction of plane waves incident obliquely at a plane interface between uniform elastic solid half-space and porous solid containing liquid filled bound pores and two ...

Physicists have reached an unexpected breakthrough: they changed beams of light into a supersolid that flows without normal resistance. This marks a major milestone in condensed matter physics because ...