Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

Can you really use a pencil to replace the inside of a spark plug? One intrepid group of experimenters decided to find out ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that molecular vibrations can act like a catapult, flinging ...

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...

In superconducting materials, pairs of electrons form a shared quantum-mechanical state. Control of this macroscopic quantum state is a key feature that is required for superconducting quantum ...