Is Ranch Dressing a Liquid or a Solid? Imagine you’re sitting down for dinner. You pick up a bottle of ranch dressing, flip it upside down, and expect it to pour onto your plate. But nothing happens.

Substances can exist in three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. Substances can change states. To change the state of a substance energy must be transferred to, or from, the substance.

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and solids, so materials scientists say it is viscoelastic – a combination of ...

Does it feel like a solid, liquid, or gas? Leave the shaving cream blob out overnight. Look at it very closely the next day. How has it changed? Leave it for a few more days. Has its state changed?

Scientists have transformed light into a supersolid, a breakthrough merging solid and liquid properties in quantum physics.

A team of researchers affiliated with UNIST has succeeded in identifying traces of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) using ...

It changes from water (liquid) to ice (solid). Explain that another change in state is when liquid water cools enough and freezes to form ice. Instead of changing from a liquid to a gas, like in ...