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New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” Andrei Khlobystov, a nanomaterials researcher at the University of Nottingham in ...

Matter is an inquisitive subject for scientists to investigate. Despite being so overwhelmingly surrounded by matter, there is a lot that is yet to be understood about it. Recently, researchers found ...

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

A team from the Universities of Nottingham and Ulm has, for the first time, observed how tiny droplets of molten metal can be trapped in an “atomic corral,” remaining liquid at tempe ...

Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist—one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas or plasma—at the interface of two exotic materials made into a sandwich.

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the ...

Scientists have taken another major step toward creating stable quantum computers. Using a specialized quantum computer chip (an essential component of a quantum computer) as a kind of tiny laboratory ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

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