For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A wave of recent experiments is now tearing at those boundaries, revealing ...

Experiments with gases and liquids, in both static and dynamic conditions, and in the presence of methanol and kinetic inhibitors illustrate the complexity of controlling hydrates in petroleum ...

Through a combination of high-pressure experiments and optical spectroscopy, physicists have revealed new insights into the structural forms of solid methane. Led by Mengnan Wang at the University of ...

Solid to liquid: Theoretical modelling explores the movement of atoms within a liquid nanodroplet of platinum that is confined inside a defect in a carbon support. Platinum atoms at the edges are much ...