Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid.

Scientists studying molten metals have uncovered a surprising truth: even in a liquid state, some atoms do not move at all. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange ...

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 ...

Whenever we get a big snowfall, people ask, "Why is snow white?" The answer, as always, is science!

Physicists saw excitons, a type of quasiparticle, undergo a reversible phase transition from superfluid to supersolid for the ...

The properties of a quantum material are driven by links between its electrons known as quantum correlations. A RIKEN researcher has shown mathematically that, at non-zero temperatures, these ...

When everyday matter is cooled, it follows a familiar path. A gas becomes a liquid, and with further cooling, that liquid turns into a solid. Quantum ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

Physicists have observed a strange new quantum phase in a graphene-based system, where a superfluid appears to freeze into a solid-like state. Cooling usually pushes matter through a simple sequence.

Scientists in Korea develop a cleaner and cheaper method to produce ammonia on a large scale and reduce emissions.