The atoms of a solid are strongly attracted to each other. Solids keep their shape because of these strong attractions. The atoms vibrate but do not move past each other.

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

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.

The little spheres represent water molecules. Molecules are in constant motion. The attractions water molecules have for each other keep them close together. They can move past each other, but their ...

The deposition of molecules into pores is a gradual process, driven initially by attractive interactions — such as van der Waals and electrostatic forces — between the solid wall of the pore ...

Because plastic is so commonly used, finding new ways to manage and recycle plastic waste is becoming ever more ...

A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming spontaneously on solid surfaces. The discovery, which began with a simple mistake in the lab, is ...

A new study from Cornell University has strengthened the case for using a specific group of molecules—known as microRNAs—as ...

but a powdery solid substance. On a nanoscale, it consists of stacks of atomically thin sheets, like a tiny stack of cards. When the material comes into contact with water molecules, these ...

Researchers at the UAB have developed a new chemical reaction to form solid polymeric networks using light (photocuring) ...