Most of us learned about the basic states of matter in school: solid, liquid, gas, and maybe plasma if we had an exceptional teacher. But the universe is far more creative than our textbooks suggested ...

Scientists have discovered a new state of matter that isn't a solid, liquid, or gas. Researchers call this new type of material a 'corralled supercooled liquid'. Atoms in a liquid are normally like ...

Magnetic materials in a quantum spin liquid phase are of great interest in the pursuit of exotic state of matter and quantum computation. But in the quantum realm, things are not always what they seem ...