The Romantic poet John Keats once defined a state of mind wherein a person "is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." He called it ...

Pressure-temperature (P-T) phase diagram of a NaYbSe2 single crystal. Courtesy: Run-Ze Yu Researchers in China report that they have observed both superconductivity and an insulator-to-metal ...

Explore 25 science experiments that defied the laws of physics, revealing mind-bending phenomena that challenge intuition.

In a significant advance for semiconductor manufacturing, mechanical engineers created a simulation that makes it easier to choose environmentally friendly water jet and underwater ultrasound ...

In a demonstration that defies basic assumptions in physics, researchers have created liquid sodium at room temperature. As a member of the alkali metals—the first column in the periodic table—sodium ...

This video explains how pressure in a fluid increases as the depth increases. At a particular point in a fluid, we can calculate the pressure, measured in Pascals. The pressure caused by a column of ...

Grown at ambient pressure: A diamond sample in the solidified liquid metal. (Courtesy: Institute for Basic Science/Yan Gong) The usual way of manufacturing synthetic diamonds involves applying huge ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students studying calculating pressure, pressure in a liquid and atmospheric pressure. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got ...

Come one, come all. See an electron gun demonstration, watch what happens when atmospheric pressure drops in a vacuum chamber ...