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Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Astronomers have spotted heavy water in the disk of a young star for the first time. What’s wild is that this water seems to ...

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

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have made an unexpected discovery about one of the world's most familiar ...

Director James Cameron's painstaking process to bring "Avatar" to the big screen will be the subject of a new documentary.

The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Scientists created this new phase of ice—known as Ice XXI—by supercompressing water to 20,000 times normal pressure in just 10 milliseconds.

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 ...

Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature's most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars ...