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Winter Storm Fern, a rare convergence of Arctic cold and Southwest moisture, seems set to bring Arctic weather to many parts ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from ...

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn't entirely clear why that layer forms.

Just hours before a major winter storm would cover Oklahoma, outreach teams split up throughout OKC to survey people sleeping outside.

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ...

“Looking at things at a very, very fast rate allows us to observe weird and wonderful phenomena,” Salamat says, calling the ...

The 'superionic ice' can't make up its mind between being a solid or liquid.

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

For years, researchers have provided contradictory evidence about the “premelting film” of ice, its thickness and whether it ...

Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.