Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how pressure affects the boiling point of liquids, revealing why water boils differently at high altitudes and the science behind this everyday phenomenon.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Earth's inner core, the deepest part of our planet, is ...

In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in exploring the interactions between liquids and surfaces. These studies have applications that range from making extremely water-repellent ...

Your morning coffee may help scientists better predict future volcanic eruptions. In A Nutshell The discovery: Scientists ...

Supercritical fluids are crucial to understand giant planets such as Jupiter and Neptune, where similar states of matter may reign. A study now published in Nature Communications brings remarkable ...

Liquid-level monitoring plays an important role in today's automotive, oil, water, pressure, and gas industries, to name a few. For example, pumping oil into a storage tank requires liquid-level ...

Pressure-temperature (P-T) phase diagram of a NaYbSe2 single crystal. Courtesy: Run-Ze Yu Researchers in China report that they have observed both superconductivity and an insulator-to-metal ...