I once spent a frustrating few days developing a white chocolate rocky road recipe. No matter what I tried, my melted chocolate turned into a grainy, clumpy mess as soon as I stirred in the other ...

A new study helps to reconcile a Nobel Prize-winning theory with experiments on how solids actually melt. In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory ...

While universal formulas exist for every other phase transition (liquid-to-gas, gas-to-liquid, even solid-to-gas), no such formula exists for predicting when a solid melts into a liquid. A new study ...