If you thought ice varieties got no more interesting than crushed versus cubed, think again: Researchers have discovered an ice form whose haphazard molecular structure resembles that of liquid water, ...

Researchers have created a never-before-seen form of ice with a disorganized structure and a density almost exactly that of liquid water. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Researchers have found an entirely new form of ice. The ice is amorphous, meaning it doesn’t have a neatly organised crystal structure, and it could help unravel the mysteries of liquid water. We ...

Ice cubes float in water because they’re less dense than the liquid. But a newfound type of ice has a density nearly equal to what’s in your water glass, researchers report in the Feb. 3 Science. If ...

Ice floating on water may seem ordinary, but it is actually one of the most fascinating scientific phenomena in nature.

Scientists have created a new type of ice that matches the density and structure of water, perhaps opening a door to studying water’s mysterious properties. “It might be liquid water frozen in time,” ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental ...

A model of Neptune showing depths where the newly discovered, body-centered-cubic superionic Ice XIX could exist. It may explain Neptune’s multi-polar magnetic field (purple) due to increased ...

Whether it's the cubes in your cocktail or a raft for Arctic seals, floating ice is a basic fact of nature we may take for granted. Floating ice is "such a fundamental fact of the world, it's hard to ...