Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging ...

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” ...

Scientists have observed transitions into and out of an exotic state of matter found between liquid and solid in 2-D materials (Sci. Rep. 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80082-x). The hexatic phase ...

Solid, liquid, gas … and something else? While most of us learn about just three states of matter in elementary school, physicists have discovered several exotic varieties that can exist under extreme ...