Scientists from Caltech have developed ‘a new type of matter,’ which they are calling polycatenated architected materials, or PAMs. This new matter doesn’t occur naturally, and uses chainmail-like design with entangled rings in place of fixed ...

Look up at the night sky and it is easy to believe that stars and galaxies are where the universe keeps almost all of its substance. Precision measurements of the cosmos tell a different story. Most of the “normal” matter made of protons and neutrons is not locked into bright objects at all,

If a new research paper’s theory is correct, then there should be a much higher population of very small, very luminous galaxies in the early universe. With everything we learn about the nature of dark matter—that mysterious, unseeable substance that ...

Carolyn Devereux receives funding from STFC. Matter is “stuff”. It is anything that is made up of particles that take up space. Everything we can feel and see on Earth is matter, and it’s usually in one of three types: solid, liquid or gas.

Students will learn how to categorize matter as either pure substances or mixtures. Students will apply tests, based on physical properties of matter samples, to determine whether a mixture is homogeneous or heterogeneous. Students will apply tests, based ...

At the end of a lecture on astronomy, describing how the planets orbit the Sun, a little old lady at the back of the room stood up and said: "What you've told us is all rubbish. The world is really a flat crust of earth supported on the back of a giant ...