This achievement led to the identification of a previously unknown crystallization pathway in water and resulted in the ...

Imagine holding a narrow tube filled with salty water and watching it begin to freeze from one end. You might expect the ice ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

This counterintuitive physics demonstration about phase transitions, boiling points, water vapour and steam has a simple ...

At a remote field camp, scientists and engineers are on a mission to discover when and how fast the West Antarctic could melt ...

Plasma is usually introduced as the stuff of stars and fusion reactors, a searing soup of charged particles that has little ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

New research shows how warm water moves under Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, revealing how hidden currents and seafloor shape ...

The global technology company Amazon has announced four new water replenishment projects in the U.K. and across North America, which are expected to restore over 2 billion liters of water annually.

PHOENIX — Arizona will provide taxpayer money to help private companies develop plans for at least two and possibly three desalination plants in California or Mexico under proposals approved by a ...

If future missions confirm sustained heat flow at both poles, Enceladus would strengthen its position as one of the more accessible environments for detecting extraterrestrial life within the Solar ...