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

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter in which spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons) do not ...

The more we learn about the world around us, the more it keeps surprising us with how little we actually know. Case in point: water. The vital, life-sustaining liquid is everywhere. It covers most of ...

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

Liquid Water’s Secret Phase? Most matter on Earth comes in one of three states or phases — the all-too-familiar solid, liquid, and gas trio. Depending on the environment and how the molecules of a ...

The existence of more than two liquid states in a single-component substance and the ensuing liquid–liquid transitions (LLTs) has attracted considerable attention because of its counterintuitive ...

Mundane as it may seem, glass is a surprisingly mysterious material. Now scientists at the University of Konstanz have identified a new state of matter called liquid glass, which has some unusual ...

Liquid–liquid transition is an intriguing phenomenon in which a liquid transforms into another liquid via the first-order transition. For molecular liquids, however, it always takes place in a ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Lasers power modern life, from fiber optic networks that drive internet communications to precision tools that enable complex surgery. Most commercial lasers emit light at fixed ...