Could the hidden seas of icy moons occasionally boil beneath kilometers of ice? Recent modeling suggests that, given just the ...

THIS is a very large and important work, and one which cannot fail to be useful to the scientific chemist. It is divided into several parts, and contains, or rather consists of, tables of the elements ...

Substances with large intermolecular forces have fewer molecules escaping into the gas phase at a given temperature because the forces holding them in the liquid are stronger. Therefore, substances ...

Substances can exist in three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. Substances can change states. To change the state of a substance energy must be transferred to, or from, the substance. Phew! On ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India’s ecommerce market is on a rocket-like trajectory. The success of home-grown players such as Flipkart and ...

Huge sections of the ice around the south pole of Mars are melting in this summer's warm weather. The ice cap - made of solid carbon dioxide at temperatures as low as -143 - 'boils' every summer (or, ...