New research suggests that the Earth's solid inner core is softer and more dynamic than previously thought, changing ideas.

Engineers reinvent the 5,000-year-old gear using fluids instead of solid teeth.

Physicists are rapidly expanding the traditional menu of matter beyond solids, liquids, gases and plasmas, uncovering exotic ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

A small Finnish electric motorcycle maker is making one of the boldest claims the electric vehicle world has heard in years.

The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...

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According to recent research, a previously unknown, new state of matter may exist at the boundary between liquids and solids, as certain atoms remain stationary even in liquid metals. This discovery ...

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 ...

Solid, liquid and gaseous – these are the familiar main forms of matter. Scientists at Ulm University and the University of Nottingham have now proven the existence of a completely new state of matter ...

In a breakthrough that reshapes our understanding of materials, researchers have identified a new state of matter known as a corralled supercooled liquid. In this unusual form, atoms behave partly ...

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the temperature, significantly impacting the solidification process, including ...