Students at Manchester University were conducting an experiment when they saw the fluid they were working with take on a liquid, solid, and gas form all at once. The students were using a mass ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A wave of recent experiments is now tearing at those boundaries, revealing ...

A series of experiments studying complex plasmas is taking place on board the international space station ISS. Physicists from Germany will use these experiments to study fundamental structure forming ...

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 ...

The particles of a solid are very close together. It melts when it changes from the solid state to the liquid state. The same mass of liquid will have slightly greater volume than the solid. As ...