When we take a stroll on the beach, we walk on the sand without any trouble. The sand appears solid and is difficult to compress. When we put the same sand grains in an hourglass, they behave very ...

Researchers have achieved the notoriously difficult task of squashing a liquid, using a technique that allows water to be compressed by up to 20 times more than normal. Liquids typically can’t be ...

Researchers have compressed super-hot liquids between diamonds to demystify how fluids behave under extreme conditions, such as in the interiors of planets. Physicists have struggled to track how a ...