Is Ranch Dressing a Liquid or a Solid? Imagine you’re sitting down for dinner. You pick up a bottle of ranch dressing, flip it upside down, and expect it to pour onto your plate. But nothing happens.

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and ...

The physical properties are due to the arrangement and movement of all the particles. Water is in the liquid state. It can flow because its particles can change position and slide past each other.

A joint research team has successfully developed a next-generation soft robot based on liquid. The research was published in Science Advances.

A supersolid is a paradox of physics — a material that is both solid and liquid at the same time. This contradictory form of matter was first proposed more than 60 years ago, and, for a long ...

The anxiety of potential spills, coupled with strict airport liquid restrictions, often meant leaving beloved scents behind. I’d head on my travels scent-free – until I stumbled upon solid perfumes, a ...

Dimitrios Trypogeorgos from Italy’s National Research Council (CNR) reportedly said, “We actually made light into a solid. That’s pretty awesome.” This feat builds on earlier work by ...