The Romantic poet John Keats once defined a state of mind wherein a person "is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." He called it ...

Physicists have demonstrated a new type of tunable liquid lens whose focus can be changed simply by varying the pressure on it. The lens is formed from the curved interface between a liquid and air at ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students studying calculating pressure, pressure in a liquid and atmospheric pressure. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got ...

In a significant advance for semiconductor manufacturing, mechanical engineers created a simulation that makes it easier to choose environmentally friendly water jet and underwater ultrasound ...

Pressure-temperature (P-T) phase diagram of a NaYbSe2 single crystal. Courtesy: Run-Ze Yu Researchers in China report that they have observed both superconductivity and an insulator-to-metal ...

University of Salford provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. When we boil a kettle, we observe what scientists call a phase transition: the water changes from being a liquid to ...

In a demonstration that defies basic assumptions in physics, researchers have created liquid sodium at room temperature. As a member of the alkali metals—the first column in the periodic table—sodium ...