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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Currently, small metal implants either have to be surgically removed from the body once they're no longer needed, or just left inside indefinitely – both of which can lead to complications. Now, ...