Water may appear simple but behaves in ways that surprise even the world’s greatest scientists. A new international study has ...

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

Ice XXI” is an entirely new phase of ice with a crystal structure that’s more complex than the ice found on Titan or Ganymede ...

A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser. Meet ice XXI, a ...

Researchers at the European XFEL and DESY are investigating unusual forms of ice that can exist at room temperature when subjected to extreme pressure. Ice comes in many forms, even when made of ...

Ice cream comes in many different flavors. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to exist in more than 20 different solid forms or phases that differ in the ...

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ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting ...