In the Leidenfrost effect, water droplets don't evaporate on a hot surface, but instead dance and skitter or explode. Now we know why.

When the conditions are right, granular materials can act a lot like water or oil, which could help with drug manufacturing.

Scientists have figured out how to prevent water from freezing, even at extreme temperatures as low as -263 degrees Celsius.

A bizarre class of molecules may play a role in disease: proteins that cluster together to form spherical droplets inside human cells.

Heating liquid metal turned it into a plasma, but the strangest bit is what happened to its physics.

Predicting how liquid droplets move and splatter could help investigators draw better clues from crime scenes.

An inexpensive, simple method could improve drug delivery, chemical sensors, and fluid pumps by controlling nanoparticles in liquid.

"This is so removed from anything I've ever seen that I would have thought it was impossible."

The test can identify and differentiate liquids by the elements they contain, and also test for a huge number of inorganic elements in seconds or minutes.