Celebrate the end of our Winter Weeks season with a live, interactive experience! Explore the properties of the three states of matter--solids, liquids, and gasses--in this phase-changing, ...

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

Download the experiment instructions HERE! Let’s learn about the properties of liquids and solids: Solids are not compressible, they’re rigid, they don’t flow, and their particles are packed close ...

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

Conduct investigations to identify characteristics of gases, and learn about the gases that make up our atmosphere. Explore features of solids, liquids, and gases while noticing that substances can ...

The collaborators are Kazan Federal University, Vereschagin Institute of High Pressure Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences), Queen Mary University of London, Imperial College London, Rutherford ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new kind of matter can be both solid and liquid at once. In this chain-melted state, molten and ...

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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 ...