Is Ranch Dressing a Liquid or a Solid? Imagine you’re sitting down for dinner. You pick up a bottle of ranch dressing, flip it upside down, and expect it to pour onto your plate. But nothing happens.

Seems like a liquid. You probably learned in school that there are three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Think ice cube, a puddle of water and steam. Maybe you also learned about a fourth ...

The matter making up the world around us has long-since been organized into three neat categories: solids, liquids and gases.

Seems like a liquid. But the dressing doesn't spread all over ... Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Digital Vision via Getty Images The basic states of matter To figure out what's going on with ranch dressing, you ...

With properties of a superfluid but with a crystalline structure, supersolids have previously only been observed in ultracold ...

For decades, researchers have explored how electrons behave in quantum materials. Under certain conditions, electrons ...

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea ...

Scientists have developed a model that predicts a massive boost in OLED brightness using polaritons—hybrid light-matter ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

A team of Italian scientists has successfully made light behave like a supersolid for the first time. Published in Nature Journal, their study shows this new phase of matter with friction-free flow ...

Under certain conditions, electrons interact strongly with each other instead of moving independently, leading to exotic quantum states ... will never overheat no matter how long one uses them.