Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

Grab a powerful magnifying glass and have a look at what's really going on in motley assortment of substances on a patio. Pick each substance, and magnify it right down to the atomic level so that you ...

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” Andrei Khlobystov, a nanomaterials researcher at the University of Nottingham in ...

Scientists have found the proof for a liquid-to-liquid transition in sulfur and of a new kind of critical point ending this transition. Scientists from the ESRF, together with teams from CEA and ...

Conduct investigations to identify characteristics of gases, and learn about the gases that make up our atmosphere. Explore features of solids, liquids, and gases while noticing that substances can ...

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