An international team of scientists has experimentally observed an unusual form of ice that could naturally occur on distant ...

Previously predicted by theoretical models, we now have the first experimental observation of plastic Ice VII. That might ...

Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Scientists observe plastic ice, a rare hybrid of solid and liquid, forming under extreme conditions, revealing planetary ...

The work has been published in Nature. Plastic ice VII was originally predicted more than 15 years ago by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations as a phase of water that could exist under high ...

One of those theorized in the 2000s was Ice VII, otherwise known as Plastic Ice. At the time, it wasn’t possible to create the precise conditions required for such a theoretical state of matter ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of which – predicted to exist at high temperature ...

The findings suggest plastic ice VII may have existed in Europa and Titan's interiors and could influence nu... The holy month begins with the sighting of the crescent moon and ends with the ...