Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

Nigel Pereira on two inventions that seem to be mind-boggling as they seem to change the natural state of the resource in question. With deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels now widely ...

THE low temperature exhibition, which is being arranged by the Science Museum, has already been mentioned in these columns; we now learn from the director of the Museum, Col. E. E. B. Mackintosh, that ...

SHOULD BE UP AND RUNNING. IT’S MONDAY SO THAT MEANS ANOTHER EPISODE OF THE SCIENCE OF IT. ABD AS WESH 2’S JACLYN DEAUGUSTINO SHOWS US WE’RE LOOKING AT LIQUID NITROGEN AND THINGS GET MESSY. JACLYN: WE ...

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI science center. Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and leads AstroTours around the ...