For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...

I've been baking for years and I know that there is supposed to be a difference between liquid and solid measures. But what is the difference? It seems to be only in the larger measures, as I haven't ...

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The discovery of superconductivity more than a century ago has significantly changed our world. The story began in 1911 when the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes observed that the electrical ...