Imagine a liquid that flows freely one moment, then stiffens into a near-solid the next, and then can switch back with a ...

When invisible dark matter spins, it may form clumps of "vortexes" that stretch across space, forming the cosmic web that links all galaxies, new research proposes.

I've always been fascinated by how materials break down, especially glasses and polymers that don't have a regular crystal ...

More recently, hetero-structure devices with clear quantum-mechanical behaviour have been reported, ... A wire with a solid gold particle, imaged at 540 °C ...

Particle physicists have uncovered a large, hidden void in Khufu’s Pyramid, the largest pyramid in Giza, Egypt – built between 2600 and 2500 BC. The discovery, published in Nature, was made ...

These scientists routinely study the subtle properties of solids by bombarding them with charged particles and watching for those that bounce off, get stuck or pass through to emerge, somehow changed.

Find out what particle arrangements and movements are in solids, liquids, and gases in this BBC Bitesize KS3 physics guide.

More information: Yingying Chen et al, Helical peptide structure improves conductivity and stability of solid electrolytes, Nature Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01966-1 ...

Furthermore, particle tracking reveals increased disorder in the crystalline regions that border on these defects, with the amount of disorder depending on the type of defect. According to the ...

Particles go through a series of movements and arrangements. The more compact the arrangement is, the more solid it is. The kinetic particle theory describes this.

“To understand these concentrated particle suspensions, we want to be able to look at the nanoscale structure, but the particles are so incredibly crowded together that imaging these structures ...