Solid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors The method could be a route to quicker, less invasive cancer diagnoses.

Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows there are three primary states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Microsoft now says it has created a new state of matter in its quest ...

Substances can exist in three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. Substances can change states. To change the state of a substance energy must be transferred to, or from, the substance.

The liquid-solid phase transition, Radin and Aristoff reason, should therefore be marked by the “shear response” of a material jumping from zero to a positive value.

Molecules in a gas are more widely dispersed, freely moving around without obstructing one another. In a liquid, however, they rub up against each other, and in a solid they are so packed together ...

This column is part of Globe Careers' new Leadership Lab series, where executives and leadership experts share their views and advice about the leadership and management issues of today. There ...

The molecules that make up a gas are about 100 to 1000 times further apart than the molecules of a solid or liquid. Imagine what a tablespoon of water looks like. If that same number of molecules was ...

Ask Smithsonian: Is Fire a Solid, Liquid or Gas? It's been helping humans in myriad ways for over a million years, our host Eric Schulze has more ...