Many solid materials "remember" their past. A piece of metal may respond differently after being stretched, heated, or cooled, and memory materials rely precisely on this kind of history-dependent ...

At the most fundamental levels, science often challenges common sense. And a new finding might be the most nonsensical of them all: liquids break. A recent Physical Review Letters paper, “Unexpected ...

Scientists have discovered something that seems almost impossible: under the right conditions, ordinary liquids can snap apart like solid objects. In experiments, researchers found that when certain ...

In a development that could shift our basic understanding of fluid mechanics, researchers from Drexel University have reported that, given the right circumstances, it is possible to induce a simple ...

Equilibrium takes place in a dystopian future. After the events of World War III, the survivors agree that the only way to avoid another mass-casualty conflict is to suppress human emotions. Art is ...

It’s been frigid outside, but Paige and Adam Jacobson decided to make it even colder in their “lab.” The Science Siblings experimented with liquid nitrogen. They explained that liquid nitrogen is ...

The manipulation of metals as they transform from a liquid to a solid can have immense benefits for technologies. A new study finds that the manipulation of stationary atoms in a liquid metal can ...

Professor Paul McGonigal. Credit: Thomas Player, University of Oxford. Normally, when liquids solidify, their molecules become locked in place, making it much harder for ions to move and leading to a ...

High school science misses a lot of the science researchers actually work with. For example, you learn that there are three states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas—but in advanced physics, things get ...

Theoretical modelling explores the movement of atoms within a liquid nanodroplet of platinum that is confined inside a defect in a carbon support. The colours represent the mobility of the atoms: ...

Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here’s how to control its ...