A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser. Meet ice XXI, a ...

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 ...

Water may appear simple but behaves in ways that surprise even the world’s greatest scientists. A new international study has ...

When scientists squeezed a drop of water between two diamonds to endure pressures tens of thousands of times higher than ...

Physicists have tried so many different ways to find dark matter, but none has been successful. Now an unexpected contender ...

UC San Diego engineers create a soft vine robot that twists through arteries and jet engines with liquid crystal skin.

Experiments show amino acids can cling to interstellar dust, survive heating, and reach planets - supporting a cosmic origin ...

PLQY is a measure of how efficiently a material converts absorbed light into emitted light. It’s the ratio of the number of ...

Researchers held a high-quality plasma steady for 43 seconds using frozen hydrogen, setting new fusion record.

WITH energy bills biting, every penny saved counts. Did you know that a clean, organised fridge and freezer actually costs ...

Remarkably, no energy input is required for this to happen, which gave some scientists a cool idea. Researchers at the ...

Giant molecular rings that mimic the puckered shapes of cyclobutane, cyclopentane and cyclohexane could offer new insights ...