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

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

Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging ...

After conducting numerous experiments with potassium, Scottish researchers have claimed to have discovered a new stable state of matter that behaves both as a solid ...

At school, when we are still young, we are taught about the three main states of matter, which are liquid, gas, and solid – these are common knowledge. Then, it is already a shock when we discover ...

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Matter is all around us. Everything that has weight and takes up space is matter. Matter exists mostly in four basic states: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. And it all has to do with atoms. Science ...

A series of experiments studying complex plasmas is taking place on board the international space station ISS. Physicists from Germany will use these experiments to study fundamental structure forming ...

Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. How many states of matter are there? When you were young, you probably ...