For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...
Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging ...
Conduct investigations to identify characteristics of gases, and learn about the gases that make up our atmosphere. Explore features of solids, liquids, and gases while noticing that substances can ...
Scientists have found the proof for a liquid-to-liquid transition in sulfur and of a new kind of critical point ending this transition. Scientists from the ESRF, together with teams from CEA and ...
Students are introduced to the idea that matter is composed of atoms and molecules that are attracted to each other and in constant motion. Students explore the attractions and motion of atoms and ...