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 ...

A supercritical fluid refers to a state in which the temperature and pressure of a substance exceed its critical point, where ...

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed ...

The collaborators are Kazan Federal University, Vereschagin Institute of High Pressure Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences), Queen Mary University of London, Imperial College London, Rutherford ...

Known as the ‘world’s longest experiment’, the set up at the University of Queensland was famous for taking ten years for a drop of pitch – a thick, black, sticky material – to fall from a funnel.

Matter is the name for anything that takes up space and that can weigh something. Everything around us is made of matter. Fran: We can compare or group different materials according to whether they ...

A clever tweak is letting students “cheat” at one of the world’s longest running experiments. Although pitch – or bitumen – seems solid at room temperature, it flows like a liquid given enough time.

Physicists have set up a new pitch drop experiment for students to explore the difference between solid and liquids. Known as the 'world's longest experiment', the set up at the University of ...

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 ...