Is Ranch Dressing a Liquid or a Solid? Imagine you’re sitting down for dinner. You pick up a bottle of ranch dressing, flip it upside down, and expect it to pour onto your plate. But nothing happens.

A CU Boulder-led study measured water vapor in Greenland’s air, collecting data crucial for improving climate models and forecasting Arctic changes.

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Supercritical water, a mysterious state where water behaves like both a liquid and gas, has long puzzled scientists.

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...

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Scientists have transformed light into a supersolid, a breakthrough merging solid and liquid properties in quantum physics.

For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it's such ...

State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Innovation Laboratory ...

Discover Plastic Ice VII, an exotic phase of water with both solid and liquid-like properties. Learn about its formation, molecular dynamics, and significance in planetary science.

Around 99.99 percent of the time, a strong understanding of the four basic forms of matter—solids, liquids, gasses, and plasmas—will help us navigate the phase-change properties of our lives.

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