Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

At its most important, science often challenges logic. And the new discovery may be the most absurd of all: water breaks. A recent paper in Physical Review Letters, “Unexpected Fracture of Solids in Soft Liquids,” reports exactly that—when liquids are stretched with enough force, a supposedly liquid material breaks like a solid. Research suggests that … Read more

Scientists created a very thin chip to study invisible light until it began to emit green light on its own.

Green beam of steerable light

Scientists may have invented a night vision laser. Our incredible progress as a society has been increasing exponentially in recent years. When a team of scientists did it The chip is too thin to study invisible light of the world, they have mistakenly created something else entirely, the evergreen tree. How can this new invention … Read more

Land animals evolved from marine ancestors – a new study reveals the genes of the transition

A colorful timeline of when different generations of animals evolved into lifestyles based on land.

The transition from water to land is a question that still puzzles scientists. Those ancient organisms would need to adapt to the many new challenges of life outside of water. So, how did they do that? In the 2025 study, my colleagues and I tried to understand the genetic basis of adaptation to life on … Read more