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, ...
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A team of researchers from Switzerland and France and theoretical physicists in Canada and the U.S., including Rice University, believe they have found evidence of a theorized quantum phenomenon ...
Adapted from an article run in CU Boulder Today by Daniel Strain A team led by RASEI Fellow Ivan Smalyukh has discovered a new type of liquid crystal that exists in perpetual, rhythmic motion, ...