"Energy transition" is a very common term but has no official definition. This article reviews the four key theories and what they tell us about the present and future.

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Although superfluids flow indefinitely, scientists just witnessed one stopping. It could be evidence of a superfluid ...

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

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While the role of topology is established in active matter systems, its importance in cardiac electrophysiology, particularly concerning common arrhythmias, warrants further emphasis. Atrial ...

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Using advanced electron microscopy, researchers have watched individual atoms transition from chaotic liquid motion to ordered solid structure, revealing that the boundary between liquid and solid ...

High school science misses a lot of the science researchers actually work with. For example, you learn that there are three states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas—but in advanced physics, things get ...