The secret to how steel hardens and shape-memory alloys snap into place lies in rapid, atomic-scale shifts that scientists ...

Solar cells and computer chips need silicon layers that are as perfect as possible. Every imperfection in the crystalline ...

Physicists with the U.S. Department of Energy have discovered a new phase of matter—and, with apologies to George R. R. Martin, it's something of "a song of ice and fire." The duo from the ...

The background for their theory of phase changes in a bubbling universe is a highly interesting problem with calculating the so-called Hubble constant; a value for how fast the universe is expanding.

It's still water molecules, but they are undergoing a transition from solid to liquid. We certainly are not saying that the brain is near melting.

The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025; 122 (13) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2422968122 ...