And the glowing colors of neon signs are created by plasma and so is the light inside a fluorescent bulb. For more information about states of matter, check out the Science Trek website.

Everyone is familiar with three of the traditional states of matter (liquid, gas and solid) but the fourth fundamental state is one that is less well known, which seems ridiculous as it is the ...

Researchers have produced quark-gluon plasma -- a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe -- with fewer particles than previously thought possible.

These strange states have equally strange names, such as quark-gluon plasma. Assistant professor in the Department of Physics Yafis Barlas provides his input in the debate over how many states of ...

How is plasma used on Earth? Plasma happens when gas gets heated to a very high temperature and the atoms lose their electrons. Find out more about this state of matter. Major Funding by the Laura ...

Plasma is a state of matter that is often thought of as a subset of gases, but the two states behave very differently. Like gases, plasmas have no fixed shape or volume, and are less dense than ...

In nature, matter naturally exists in one of four states. The most common (and least familiar) of these states in the visible universe is a plasma, an ionized gas composed of ions, electrons and ...

Besides the basic well-known states of matter – solid, liquid, gas and plasma – there are many exotic states being conjured up in the lab. One of these, known as a “supersolid,” was only ...

Chinese radar detects an ionospheric "plasma bubbles" over Egypt from Hainan, revealing key advances in global monitoring of ...