Observation of cubic ice formation on graphene at 102 K by in situ cryogenic TEM. Credit: Institute of Physics Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have ...

Cube-shaped ice is rare, at least at the microscopic level of the ice crystal. Now researchers have coaxed typically hexagonal 3-D ice crystals to form the most cubic ice ever created in the lab.

The conventional view among scientists about how ice forms is that it begins from seeds in which water molecules are packed together in a hexagonal structure and maintains this structure as it grows.

American physicist Percy Bridgman was the first to discover five solid water phases in 1912 and we now know of more than 17 crystalline and several amorphous ice structures. This unique behaviour of ...

University of Delaware (UD) scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of ...

A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown ...

Greenland is crumbling before our eyes. This frozen giant is melting at an alarming rate, with significant implications for global sea levels. New research reveals a stark reality: between 2010 and ...

Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have made a major breakthrough in the study of ice by confirming the formation of pure-phase cubic ice at ...