(More on that in a moment.) But as usual in science, there's more to the story. On human scales of mass and distance, matter obeys the laws of motion described by Sir Isaac Newton. Chief among ...

The wave-particle dualism afflicting modern physics is best resolved in favor of waves, believes the author, but there is no clear picture of matter on which physicists can agree By Erwin Schrödinger ...

Perhaps one of the most surprising discoveries of the 20th century was that this ordinary, or baryonic, matter makes up less than 5 percent of the mass of the universe. The rest of the universe ...

Enter our online science lab to find out more about states of matter. Interact with the activity and see what happens when different substances change state. There are three main states of matter ...

Analytical chemistry is the science of obtaining, processing, and communicating information about the composition and structure of matter. In other words, it is the art and science of determining what ...

All our cosmological observations seem to suggest that normal matter we can see – the sort that makes up you, me, the planet we live on, the sun our planet orbits and the galaxy we all exist in ...