The universe doesn't just blow—sometimes it sucks. The Romantic poet John Keats once defined a state of mind wherein a person "is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any ...

(via Seeker) Making hydrogen a metal takes lot of pressure. But after a group of scientist’s lost the world’s first sample, the pressure is really on.

Negative pressure governs not only the Universe or the quantum vacuum. This phenomenon, although of a different nature, appears also in liquid crystals confined in nanopores. At the Institute of ...