Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging into structures that are rigid like a crystal yet able to flow like a ...

Honda, Toyota, and others hope to use solid-state cells in vehicles to go on sale before 2030. Advances in battery technology—for consumer electronics and electric vehicles alike—are largely ...

Scientists discover a new solid-liquid hybrid state in nanoparticles, revealing unique properties crucial for improving catalyst efficiency.

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Solid light is changing how we think about energy. Lights can be bent through many forms, one of them being the manipulation of photons, which is what light is made of. When an electron is charged to ...

Theoretical modelling explores the movement of atoms within a liquid nanodroplet of platinum that is confined inside a defect in a carbon support. The colours represent the mobility of the atoms: ...

At school, when we are still young, we are taught about the three main states of matter, which are liquid, gas, and solid – these are common knowledge. Then, it is already a shock when we discover ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s inner core may not be fully solid. (Image: Canva) Earth's inner core may be superionic, behaving as both solid and liquid. Discovery explains slow earthquake ...

Electricity powers our lives, including our cars, phones, computers and more, through the movement of electrons within a circuit. While we can’t see these electrons, electric currents moving through a ...