Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ...

Visual representation of the structure of low-density amorphous ice. Many tiny crystallites (white) are concealed in the amorphous material (blue). “Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as ...

What can space ice teach scientists about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review B hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University College ...

The research illustrates how much scientists still have to learn about a molecule as simple as water. By Kenneth Chang Shaken and chilled — but not stirred — ordinary frozen water turns into something ...

Scientists have created a new type of ice that matches the density and structure of water, perhaps opening a door to studying water’s mysterious properties. “It might be liquid water frozen in time,” ...

In the dog days of summer, popping a tray of water into the freezer to make ice cubes may seem mundane. But at the smallest scales, we still don’t know a lot about how freezing unfolds. Now, the first ...

Scientists have for the first time recorded complicated structures in ice formed by freezing liquid water at the nanoscale. (Nanowerk News) You’d think there’s nothing surprising left to discover ...

You'd think there's nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...