As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “ in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics ,” but a new and completely ...

A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.

A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws of thermodynamics, according to the authors of a new paper based on his ...

In a surprising twist, a graduate student at UMass Amherst discovered a strange new fluid behavior that seems to defy ...

A curious liquid refused to remain chaotic after being shaken and settled into a smooth, outlined shape like a piece of classic pottery.

It's strange, he explained, because typically when a ... This tendency to minimize the interfacial area is governed by the laws of thermodynamics, which describe how temperature, heat, work ...

A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising discovery of what they call a "shape-recovering liquid," which defies some ...