The formation of ice from supercooled water is a process that underpins natural phenomena ranging from cloud formation and climate regulation to technological applications such as cryopreservation.

Our understanding of the molecular dynamics of growing crystals is quite primitive, and it is generally not possible to explain why even simple crystals develop their characteristic shapes. A case in ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

Researchers have discovered that water, under extreme pressure, can freeze and melt through multiple unexpected pathways, ...

WARNING: this video contains incredible macro footage of supercooled water droplets nucleating ice. This video contains incredible macro footage of supercooled water droplets nucleating ice. All ...

Owing to the many different ways atoms can be arranged within the material, ice can exist in many more forms than what’s known as ice I, the type we’re all familiar with. Scientists have actually ...

Visual representation of the structure of low-density amorphous ice. Many tiny crystallites (white) are concealed in the amorphous material (blue). “Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as ...

A fragment of the crystal structure of the new ice is shown where the oxygen atoms are blue and the molecular hydrogen atoms pink. Hydrogen atoms that have been pulled off the water molecules are ...