A Relict Glacier near Mars’ Equator. (NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite). Credit: Pascal Lee The preservation of water ice at shallow depths…
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This satellite image shows red streaks across the surface of Europa, the smallest of Jupiter’s four large moons. The discovery of new types of salty…
Part of the setup for creating medium-density amorphous ice. Credit: Christoph Salzmann A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and University College London has led to…
The formation of sea ice is an important part of the Earth’s climate system, as it reflects sunlight back into the atmosphere and helps to…
UNLV physicists pioneered a new laser-heating technique in a diamond anvil cell (pictured here) as part of their discovery of a new form of ice.…
These photographs show the different shapes of melted ice that form for cold (4 degrees C), intermediate (5.6 degrees C), and warmer (8 degrees C)…
A laboratory reproduction of the Zen stone phenomenon in a lyophilizer. Credit: © Nicolas Taberlet / Nicolas Plihon Like a work of art enshrined in…
Associate Professor Jonathan Boreyko and graduate fellow Mojtaba Edalatpour have made a discovery about the properties of water that could provide an exciting addendum to…
Superionic water is found in ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Credit: LLNL Using the Advanced Photon Source, scientists have recreated the structure of ice formed…
Image of Neptune taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Probing the structures and properties of superionic ice. A layer of “hot,” electrically conductive…
The theoretical model proposed by Brazilian researchers can be applied to any system in which two energy scales coexist. Credit: Miguel Boyayan/Revista Pesquisa FAPESP The…
Why is ice so slippery? The answer lies in a film of water that is generated by friction, one that is far thinner than expected…
How small is the smallest possible particle of ice? It’s not a snowflake, measuring at a whopping fraction of an inch. According to new research…
Airplane wings, wind turbines, and indoor heating systems all struggle under the weight and chill of ice. Defrosting and de-icing techniques are energy-intensive, however, and…
A group of researchers has devised a method of sliding ice and frost off surfaces by melting the interfacial layer directly. In the future, a…
Surface atoms on a dust particle (shown in red, white, pink and yellow) impose an arrangement on water molecules (blue) that can promote or inhibit…