NEW ORLEANS, March 20, 2024 — From abstract-looking cloud formations to roars of snow machines on ski slopes, the transformation of liquid water into solid ice touches many facets of life. Water’s ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have used ultra-short X-ray laser pulses at facilities in South Korea to identify a ...

Using x-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University have been able to determine the existence of a critical point in ...

Particular ice-nucleating proteins produced by certain bacteria have the ability to control the freezing point of water—so efficiently that no other known material can compete. An interdisciplinary ...

Fungi may be the real-life superheroes of the natural world. Fungi are truly weird and impressive—they can live anywhere, be ...

Understanding liquid states of water at very low temperatures is important for earth sciences and biology but is difficult because supercooled liquid water is very unstable. A new computational study ...

Despite being the most familiar liquid, water is weird. It breaks many of the usual rules that govern the liquid state. In ...