For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ...

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.

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

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

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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.

The transport of dense gases and liquids is becoming increasingly ... what areas the model excels and have a solid understanding of where additional experiments are needed. "The theory is very ...

A new MIT study suggests that greenhouse gas emissions are altering the space where satellites operate. Most satellites orbit in the thermosphere, a layer of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Naturally, this ...