{"id":3925715,"date":"2026-04-29T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/microscopic-sensors-uncover-how-liquids-turn-glassy-without-structural-change\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:05:49","slug":"microscopic-sensors-uncover-how-liquids-turn-glassy-without-structural-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/microscopic-sensors-uncover-how-liquids-turn-glassy-without-structural-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Microscopic sensors uncover how liquids turn glassy without structural change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A scientific discovery by researchers at Tel Aviv University&#8217;s School of Chemistry offers a new perspective on a long-standing scientific mystery: how does a flowing liquid suddenly become a rigid, almost frozen material, without changing its structure? This phenomenon, known as the &#8220;glass transition,&#8221; has puzzled physicists for over a hundred years. The study proposes a new experimental approach to observing this elusive process\u2014by tracking the motion of tiny particles that serve as microscopic &#8220;sensors&#8221; within the material.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-microscopic-sensors-uncover-liquids-glassy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientific discovery by researchers at Tel Aviv University&#8217;s School of Chemistry offers a new perspective on a long-standing scientific mystery: how does a flowing liquid suddenly become a rigid, almost frozen material, without changing its structure? This phenomenon, known as the &#8220;glass transition,&#8221; has puzzled physicists for over a hundred years. The study proposes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}