For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

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We explore Supercritical Fluids and how being "in the between" is their superpower. Supercritical Fluids are one the strangest states of matter and yet they are found everywhere from Decaf Coffee, to ...

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AMHERST — While in our everyday lives, we only interact with three states of matter — solid, liquid and gas. But, when dealing with quantum matter and mechanics, many more states exist. Now, a new ...

In middle and high school, most people learn about the three states of matter we interact with in our everyday lives: solid, liquid and gas. Some students may have even been introduced to the idea of ...

A team of physicists has pulled off a visual trick that sounds like stage magic: they made a flash of light vanish inside a ...