The state of matter is a deceptively simple concept. It turns out that any material, no matter what it is made of, can exist in one of three forms: solid, liquid or gas. These are categories of ...

At first, the photons settle into a state with zero momentum, but as this state 'fills up', pairs of photons begin to spill ...

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and solids, so materials scientists say it is viscoelastic – a combination of ...

Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due to quantum effects – and now researchers have ...

In this episode, Dr Sunayana Bhargava and Tulela Pea explore the states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. They define melting and freezing, and boiling and condensing points. TULELA: I’m Tulela ...

REDMOND, Wash. – Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows there are three primary states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Microsoft now says it has created a new state of ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three ...