At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

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Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

For years, researchers have provided contradictory evidence about the “premelting film” of ice, its thickness and whether it ...

The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from ...

The 'superionic ice' can't make up its mind between being a solid or liquid.

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Rostock, CNRS-École polytechnique in France, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has discovered a previously unknown form ...

Researchers report that frozen hydrogen cyanide crystals can enable highly reactive chemistry at low temperatures.

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.