Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

Everything around you - and even your body - is made up of the three phases of matter. Let's find out more. The whole world and everything we can see around us is made up of matter. Matter can be ...

Chemically, substances are classified into three types, solids, liquids and gases, but if it is said to classify a swinging fire as one of these three, you should be troubled by the answer. What on ...

Nigel Pereira on two inventions that seem to be mind-boggling as they seem to change the natural state of the resource in question. With deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels now widely ...

Researchers report that the way a tissue's cells are arranged can serve as a fingerprint for the tissue's 'phase' -- whether it is more like a solid, liquid, or gas. For example, tumors that are more ...

THE tenets of physics can seem carved in stone. The speed of light is a constant. There are four fundamental forces. Theoretically, rules like these are open to revision. But new contenders had better ...

Air conditioning hasn't changed much in the 100 years since it was first developed, but there may be a new technology just ...

The Conversation discusses why frozen turkeys can explode when deep-fried due to rapid steam expansion from ice, causing ...