New research published in Nature reveals that, when cooled, droplets containing chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform from spheres into complex shapes such as flowers, corals, and fibrous ...

Dash a few drops of water onto a very hot, sizzling skillet and they’ll levitate, sliding around the pan with wild abandon. Physicists at Virginia Tech have discovered that this can also be achieved ...

Liquid-liquid effect: Physicists have observed a thermoelectric effect between two metals, gallium and mercury, that are both liquids at 30 °C. This schematic 3D image of gallium (transparent) and ...