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

As part of a long-term research collaboration, battery researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of ...

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

As part of a long-term collaboration, researchers in Prof. Y. Shirley Meng's lab at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and visiting scholars from UC San Diego found negative-thermal ...

A fundamental rule that determines the fate of the universe The second law of thermodynamics means hot things always cool unless you do something to stop them. It expresses a fundamental and ...

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 ...

Bendng the laws of thermodynamics, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a surprising "shape-changing liquid." ...