"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

In a first, US researchers have observed fractional excitons, a new class of quantum particles, that were only theoretically ...

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The so-called glass transition is the process by which some liquid-like materials become solid-like, without forming a ...

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Franklin Miller, Livingston, New Jersey, has released the Spiralift SC Screenings Washer/Compactor, which it says is an ...

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Physicist Mathieu Souzy of the University Twente was enjoying an evening of pasta and board games with several colleagues when the conversation turned to how adding salt to a pasta pot to make it boil ...

Here is a new material capable of behaving like a liquid under low pressure, then solidifying instantly upon impact.