Morning Overview on MSN

New state of matter acts like a solid and a liquid at once

Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Oxford scientists create solid battery material that works like liquid electrolyte

The freeze-out effect has been the primary barrier to developing solid-state batteries as powerful as their liquid-filled ...
C&EN

This molecule conducts charge like a liquid, even when it’s a solid

Chemists have developed a new charge-carrying molecule that possesses liquid-like conductivity even in the solid state ( ...

Newly Discovered ‘Hybrid’ Phase of Matter Blurs the Line Between Solid and Liquid

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” ...
autoevolution

Revolutionary Liquid Flow Battery Is Better Than Any Current Li-Ion Cell on the Market

While many researchers want to expand the limits of the Li-Ion battery technology, people at Influit Energy work on developing liquid flow batteries. Their latest concept, which is ready to enter ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

UChicago physicists develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties

Schools of fish, colonies of bees, and murmurations of starlings exhibit swarming behavior in nature, flowing like a liquid in synchronized, shape-shifting coordination. Through the lens of fluid ...
Medicine Buffalo

Study reveals how liquid protein droplets age into rubber ball-like elastic solids

Droplets of proteins, tied to an increasing number of cellular processes and human diseases, are known for their liquid-like ability to flow, exchange material and dissolve as needed. Yet these ...