Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) have usedquantum mechanical ...

For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is ...

Ice comes in more forms than what you’ll find in a freezer or a glacier. Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20 phases of ice, many of them shaped under extreme conditions. The growing list ...

“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 ...