At first, the photons settle into a state with zero momentum, but as this state 'fills up', pairs of photons begin to spill into the two adjacent states. This causes the polaritons to condense into ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists at Brookhaven National Lab uncovered a new phase of matter dubbed "half ice, half fire" — a bizarre mix of cold, orderly electron spins and hot, chaotic ones. Thi ...

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and ...

Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

The matter making up the world around us has long-since been organized into three neat categories: solids, liquids and gases. But last month, Microsoft announced that it had allegedly discovered ...

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.

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, EPFL researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build ...