Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

Everything around you - and even your body - is made up of the three phases of matter. Let's find out more. The whole world and everything we can see around us is made up of matter. Matter can be ...

Grab a powerful magnifying glass and have a look at what's really going on in motley assortment of substances on a patio. Pick each substance, and magnify it right down to the atomic level so that you ...

Chemically, substances are classified into three types, solids, liquids and gases, but if it is said to classify a swinging fire as one of these three, you should be troubled by the answer. What on ...

Elisa Oviedo transforms water from liquid to solid. Elisa Oviedo and her niece change water from liquid to solid using a freezer. Then they heat water up on the stove until it turns into gas. Elisa ...

Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging into structures that are rigid like a crystal yet able to flow like a ...

Rae Robertson-Anderson receives funding from the US National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and National Institutes of Health. Imagine you’re eating dinner. You try to ...