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

Superionic water could be responsible for the peculiar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune. Researchers have analyzed it ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Rostock, CNRS-École polytechnique in France, and ...

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Researchers explain a new mechanism for ice formation. Ice can form near the free surface of a water droplet via small precursors with a structure resembling ice 0. These are readily formed by ...

We usually think of ice as just frozen water. It is simple, solid, and cold. But water is a master of disguise. With just two atoms, hydrogen and oxygen, it can freeze into more than 20 different ...