Why can you stand on a glacier but not the ocean? The answer seems simple enough: Liquids flow. Solids don’t. The atoms in liquids can slosh around. In solids, they fall lockstep into a crystal ...

There's something strange about the stained-glass windows of medieval buildings: They tend to be thicker at the bottom than at the top. Many believe this is because glass is actually a liquid that has ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new kind of matter can be both solid and liquid at once. In this chain-melted state, molten and ...

Water’s just plain old water, right? Not when you trap it inside a tiny channel, it seems, because then it behaves like no other solid, liquid or gas. Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak ...

Paddy Royall receives funding from the Royal Society, European Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Before Pilkingtons invented plate glass in the mid-19th century, ...