While the effective interaction between the particles appears to break Newton’s third law, it doesn’t because there is no ...

A magnetized mix of oil, water, and nickel particles created a never-before-seen state.

Discover how NASA's microgravity experiments on colloids since 2001 paved the way for three patents by Procter & Gamble, enhancing the stability of products like toothpaste and salad dressing, and ...

Paper conservator Crystal Maitland peers over a watercolor depicting a man in a rowboat along a sandy shoreline, while a larger ship is visible farther out to sea. The work, which is under ...

The Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics has been established to provide education for advanced graduate students and postdocs working in frontiers of condensed matter ...

An antique-looking black-and-white photo of a group of about 100 people, mostly men in suits, standing and sitting in front of a building. Some attendees at the first National Colloid Symposium at the ...

The American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry is seeking papers for the 100th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. The symposium is sponsored by the University of ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

British TV presenter Davina McCall has undergone neurosurgery to remove a colloid cyst – a type of benign brain tumour. McCall was diagnosed with the tumour by chance. In an Instagram video posted in ...

Lateral flow immunoassays, also called immunochromatography strips, are straightforward devices used to detect the absence or presence of a target analyte. Target analytes range from pathogens to ...