In a laboratory at Oxford University, scientists have achieved something that once seemed science fiction: they made two ...

Water, though familiar, still hides astonishing secrets. When squeezed into nanosized channels, it can enter a bizarre “premelting state” that is both solid and liquid at once. Using advanced NMR ...

The combination of a rigid organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent has allowed researchers to produce liquids with permanent porosity. This new class of porous material combines the benefits of a ...

The reversible switching of macrocyclic molecules between a liquid and a solid phase upon exposure to vapor has been reported. The transition between a solid and a liquid phase, a key process in daily ...

Explore the intriguing world of materials in their semi-solid state, where substances display properties of both solids and liquids, and discover the science behind this mysterious state of matter.

Engineering artificial materials to possess properties unlike anything found in nature is the goal of researchers working in metamaterials. Now, an international group have used a computer model to ...

Captured within the cavities of a porous glass disk, frozen helium has coalesced into a long-awaited, but never-before-observed, quantum phase of matter, a team of physicists claims. In that ...

Why can you stand on a glacier but not the ocean? The answer seems simple enough: Liquids flow. Solids don’t. The atoms in liquids can slosh around. In solids, they fall lockstep into a crystal ...