In the kind of cold that locks car doors and makes eyelashes frost, a simple pan of boiling water can turn into a white arc ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Once upon a time, long ago, the world was encased in ice. That’s the tale told by sedimentary rock in the tropics, many geologists ...

The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

Physicists are fascinated with heady puzzles, from the nature of space and time to how the universe came to be. But spinning lawn sprinklers? Yes, that too. A new experiment provides an answer to a ...

There is a connection between physics and flamingos. It's all about the unusual way they feed. They stomp their large feet, they dip their heads upside down, eyes first into the water. They also open ...

The study of water and ice through the lens of chemical physics continues to elucidate the intricate interplay of hydrogen‐bond dynamics and molecular interactions that govern their anomalous ...