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 ...

Ice is far more complicated than most of us realize, with over 20 different varieties known to science, forming under various combinations of pressure and temperature. The kind we use to chill our ...

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 ...

Left: Diagram of premelting film on ice molecules with ice skater. Right: Changes in ice crystal structure as temperature increases. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2026 — The ice in your freezer is remarkably ...

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 ...

“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. Reading time 2 minutes For something so common to our daily lives, there ...

Scientists studying the Greenland Ice Sheet have found evidence that massive layers of refrozen meltwater deep beneath the ...

UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team spent years developing photoswitchable crystals. Every crystal’s shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of their molecules, but the molecules in ...