Going bottom-up is no problem for a boat on the underside of a levitated liquid. In a container, liquid can be levitated over a layer of gas by shaking the container up and down because the repeated, ...

The liquid levitates, and a boat floats along its bottom side. By Kenneth Chang Sail beneath a levitating sea — upside down? Through a couple of sleights of science, a team of French scientists showed ...

Magnetic studies of ultrathin slabs of copper-oxide materials reveal that at very low temperatures, the thinnest, isolated layers lose their long-range magnetic order and instead behave like a ...

Solid ice is slippery because of a “quasi-liquid layer” at the surface. New studies with both computer models and direct measurements show that this layer forms as single layers of the ice ...

Supercooled water may be a two-for-one deal. A long-standing theory holds that liquid water at temperatures well below freezing is composed of two different arrangements of molecules, one with high ...

A research group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has delivered the first clear view of how ultra-thin liquid layers rearrange themselves around microscopic surface clusters inside ...