(via Reactions) Magnets: How do they work? And can they actually be used to bend a stream of water? Alex attempts to replicate a recent scientific paper that used household magnets to bend a stream of ...

In physics, things exist in "phases", such as solid, liquid, gas. When something crosses from one phase to another, we talk about a "phase transition" - think about water boiling into steam, turning ...

A research group at The University of Tokyo has discovered a new principle by which helical chiral molecules acquire spin ...

Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these 'phase transitions' aren't smooth, but their discontinuous nature is smoothed out at high pressure. An international ...