Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into ...

The Outside Story shows how needle-thin columns of ice protruding from the ground are formed from the liquid between soil particles.

AMES, Iowa – Martin Thuo likes to look for new, affordable and clean ways to put science and technology to work in the world. His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal innovation: “How do you do ...

Aerosols refer to fine solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, where they reside typically for days to weeks before falling to the ground or being washed out by rain or snow. They arise ...

Using advanced electron microscopy, researchers have watched individual atoms transition from chaotic liquid motion to ordered solid structure, revealing that the boundary between liquid and solid ...

Lehigh Univeristy scientists, as reported in the Jan. 26, 2001, issue of Science, have succeeded in making droplets of water speed at rates of centimeters, even a meter or more, per second. Manoj ...

Self-assembling electronics made from liquid metal particles could provide a cheaper way of manufacturing computer chips, simply by harnessing the basic physics of how fluids flow through tiny ...

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