Liquid nitrogen can be used safely in food preparation — but one man's stomach burst after he threw back a cocktail that had ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...

Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...

If you live in a place with "hard" water or water with a lot of chemicals, you can even use distilled water to protect your ...

In some laboratories, a clear, oily liquid is treated less like a reagent and more like contraband, locked away behind blast doors and handled with rituals that look closer to bomb disposal than bench ...

Swiss scientists develop safer and longer-lasting batteries, reducing explosions and tripling their useful life.

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

A large share of medicines developed today may never reach patients for a surprisingly simple reason: they cannot dissolve well enough in water. For most treatments, the oral route remains the gold ...

A large share of medicines developed today may never reach patients for a surprisingly simple reason: they cannot dissolve well enough in water. For most treatments, the oral route remains the gold ...

For the first time ICFO and UAB researchers have directly imaged a spin-orbit-coupled supersolid. The team has observed quantum fluids of atoms ...

As NASA readies itself for the Artemis II mission to the moon, experts have revealed everything that could go wrong on the ...