The state of matter is a deceptively ... many more states of matter out there that it doesn’t capture. The next most familiar is plasma, which is much like a gas except here many of the ...

Understanding why we live in a matter-dominated universe demands that scientists recreate the quark-gluon plasma that existed one millionth of a second after the Big Bang. A Large Ion Collider ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule.

Researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States have discovered an exotic quantum phase in a new study states of matter, called «half-ice, half-fire». It is noted that the ...

Instead of protons and neutrons, the fundamental building blocks of matter were free quarks and gluons—a unique state known as QGP. As the universe expanded and cooled, the QGP gradually ...