Most substances can exist as a solid, liquid or gas. They can change state, usually when they are heated or cooled. For example, liquid water turns into water vapour when it is heated enough ...

Scientists from UC San Diego have uncovered a key finding to one of water's unique properties: at high pressure and low ...

Water can exist in two liquid states under extreme conditions, reshaping our understanding of its molecular behavior.

When exposed to high temperatures and pressure, water enters a state in which liquid and gas can no longer be distinguished. For a long time, there has been controversy about how this looks like on a ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and ...

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and solids, so materials scientists say it is viscoelastic – a combination of ...

After viewing a model of salt, students help develop models for the processes of salt dissolving, water evaporating to form a gas, and salt re-forming as a crystal. The focus is that matter, whether ...

solid, liquid and gas. Think ice cube, a puddle of water and steam. Maybe you also learned about a fourth state, known as plasma. These different states are defined by how the extremely tiny ...