As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “ in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics ,” but a new and completely ...

A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently made the ...

A curious liquid refused to remain chaotic after being shaken and settled into a smooth, outlined shape like a piece of ...

A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws of thermodynamics, according to the authors of a new paper based on his ...

Properties of certain liquids defy the laws of thermodynamics. Credit: Anthony Raykh / UMass Amherst A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified an unusual ...

In a surprising twist, a graduate student at UMass Amherst discovered a strange new fluid behavior that seems to defy ...

A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws of thermodynamics, according to the authors of a new paper based on ...

For centuries, humans have made use of glass in their art, tools, and technology. Despite the ubiquity of this material, ...

It’s those spices, those small bits of something else, that allow water and oil, which are normally mutually exclusive, to mix, a process called emulsification and which is described by the laws of ...

A container of oil and water separated by a thin skin of magnetized particles has intrigued a team of chemical engineers by ...