Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Water is clear and colorless and has many interesting and useful characteristics. There are other liquids that are also clear and colorless but have properties very different from water. In this ...

Liquid metals can spontaneously bulge, protrude, branch and slither in response to certain ions in their environment. This happens due to the Marangoni effect, which starts with uneven changes in the ...

Light can act like waves and particles, depending on the experiment you use to observe. It can also be turned into a liquid state in extreme condition such as at absolute zero degree environment. For ...

Power plants are engineered with precision down to the smallest detail, yet one critical variable is often considered too ...

Elizabeth Sylvester took a look through a microscope and was surprised to see her sample staring back at her. Sylvester, a research associate in Christina Tang’s lab at Virginia Commonwealth ...

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If you’ve never heard of zymurgy, you aren’t alone. But if you’ve ever tasted a beer, you’ve experienced it: Zymurgy is the science of fermentation. For Tracy Hamilton, associate professor in the ...

A team of physicists has pulled off a visual trick that sounds like stage magic: they made a flash of light vanish inside a ...