A novel apparatus at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has made extremely precise ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a new paper suggests.

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, scientists have discovered that the ...

Chemistry textbooks explain how reactions start and end, but they rarely show what happens ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...