Mundane as it may seem, glass is a surprisingly mysterious material. Now scientists at the University of Konstanz have identified a new state of matter called liquid glass.
Time crystals, liquid glass, and the strange new states of matter
Most of us are familiar with the four classical states of matter – solid, liquid, gas and plasma – but there’s a whole world of exotic states out there that exhibit some mind-bending, and potentially very useful, properties.

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“Strange metals” have that name for a reason – these materials exhibit some unusual conductive properties, and even have things in common with black holes.
Time crystals, as they are known, were deemed "forbidden" according to the laws of thermal equilibrium.
Physicists have identified a new exotic state of matter named “self-induced spin glass,” which could be used to build new artificial intelligence platforms.
A superconductor has been created out of a strange state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) for the first time ever.
As tiny as they are, there's a relatively large amount of empty space inside an atom. Now, scientists have filled in some of those gaps, creating a new state of matter in the form of "giant atoms" filled...
While it was first theorized almost 50 years ago, scientists have only recently been able to prove the exotic state of matter known as excitonium actually exists.
You already know that water can have three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. But when it's put under extreme pressure in small spaces, the life-giving liquid can exhibit a strange fourth state as...