Physicists said they have finally experimentally documented quantum spin liquids, a long sought-after exotic state of matter. The work marks a big step toward being able to produce this elusive state ...

The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- a giant atom “smasher” located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory -- say ...

Liquid crystals exhibit a state of matter that merges fluidity with a degree of molecular ordering. This mesomorphic property allows them to flow like liquids while retaining anisotropic optical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers from Switzerland and France and theoretical physicists in Canada and the U.S., including Rice University, ...

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the temperature, significantly impacting the solidification process, including ...

Quantum spin liquids represent a groundbreaking concept in quantum physics and materials science. Unlike classical magnetic materials, where electron spins align in an orderly pattern at low ...

Lucy Clark receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. Magnetism is one of the oldest recognised material properties. Known since antiquity, records from the 3rd century BC describe how lodestone, a ...

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the discovery of a new state of matter: liquid glass. The University of Konstanz chemists and physicists behind ...

We explore Supercritical Fluids and how being "in the between" is their superpower. Supercritical Fluids are one the strangest states of matter and yet they are found everywhere from Decaf Coffee, to ...

Liquid crystals occupy a fascinating state of matter that bridges the fluidity of liquids and the long-range order of crystalline solids. These materials, characterised by their mesomorphic properties ...