Tag Archive for 'Ice'

Hair ice on a stem of beechwood, hair length up to 10 cm. Image credit: D. Hofmann et al.

European Biologists Finally Solve Mystery of Hair Ice

Jul 23, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists, led by Dr Diana Hofmann of the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences in Jülich, Germany, has identified the missing ingredient that...

Square ice between two graphene sheets as seen in a transmission electron microscope (TEM); high-contrast dark spots are oxygen atoms that indicate positions of water molecules; hydrogen atoms yield too little contrast to be resolved even by the TEM. The top right inset shows a magnified image of a small area in the centre of the ice crystal. Image credit: University of Ulm.

Physicists Create New Form of Ice: Square Ice

Mar 27, 2015 by News Staff

When water is confined at high pressure between sheets of graphene its molecules adopt a square configuration, says a team of physicists from the University...

Ice Found in Lunar South Pole Shackleton Crater

Jun 22, 2012 by News Staff

Ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton crater at the Moon’s south pole, recent data from NASA’s Lunar...

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