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

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

"Robot" made of shape-shifting matter liquefies to escape jail By Michael Irving January 30, 2023 A humanoid "robot" made of a phase-change material shifts from solid and liquid to escape jail, in ...

A quirky material that behaves like a mishmash of liquid and solid could be hidden deep in the Earth. Computer simulations described in two studies suggest that the material in Earth’s inner core, ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Earth's inner core, the deepest part of our planet, is ...

Scientists have discovered a new state of matter hidden right beneath our feet – and it could explain the most mysterious properties of our planet. A new study has found that Earth's innermost core ...

We explore Supercritical Fluids and how being "in the between" is their superpower. Supercritical Fluids are one the strangest states of matter and yet they are found everywhere from Decaf Coffee, to ...

Imagine you're eating dinner. You try to pour some ranch dressing onto your plate to dip your veggies into. You tip the container upside down, but nothing comes out. Seems like a solid. So you shake ...