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 ...

A layer of searing hot liquid magma trapped since Earth's formation may lie 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) beneath our feet, new research suggests. The finding backs up theories that Earth's solid ...