Students are introduced to the idea that matter is composed of atoms and molecules that are ... molecules as they experiment with and observe the heating and cooling of a solid, liquid, and gas.

Discovering a new class of matter in the lab of Chiara Daraio at Caltech, researchers have identified a type of material that uniquely responds to stress, behaving like a fluid under some conditions ...

Based on the interlocking structure of chainmail, this material has all the best parts of both solids and liquids.

Researchers have recently identified 'dark electrons'—electrons undetectable using traditional spectroscopy—within solid materials. By examining palladium diselenide, the team ...

Experiments have yielded a fascinating new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses as a fluid would and to others like a solid. The new material ...

When a solution evaporates, the water goes into the air but the solid is left behind. Students continue exploring the particle nature of matter by first dissolving salt in water, then allowing the ...

Everything that has mass is matter. In normal everyday life we come across matter in three states, solid, liquid and gas. They have a fixed shape and cannot flow The particles cannot move from ...