Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 ...

Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

TUCKED away in a corner of Antarctica lies a mysterious mountain peak that looks exactly like a man-made pyramid with four symmetrical sides. The snowy structure of the ice-locked continent has a ...

Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly observed plastic ice VII. This hybrid phase, predicted years ago but only ...

Ice made of frozen slush or snow is much weaker than core ice, and researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and ...

In ice, water molecules are arranged in a repeating pattern that gives ice its crystal structure. Even though ice is at 0 °C, the molecules still vibrate. After freezing, the water molecules are ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...