The other reason is that when the ice cream melts, the original tiny ice crystals melt. Refreezing the ice cream makes larger ice crystals which makes the ice cream too crunchy. It’s the fat. The milk ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

The study, published as the cover story in the journal Science Advances ... as noted by New Scientist. Ice crystals adhered about four times more strongly to washed polar bear fur than to unwashed ...

Have you ever left a bottle of liquid in the freezer, only to find it cracked or shattered? To save you from tedious freezer ...

In some places, the underside of the sea ice looks like giant green clouds. These are the 'grass meadows' of Antarctica, made ...

Because many aircraft fly at high altitudes, the outside air is cold and moist enough for the water vapor in jet exhaust to condense and freeze into ice crystals, leaving those cloudy white trails.

The paper is published in the journal Science. "The assumption that ice ... explain the origin of numerous fault planes between ice crystals in ice cores obtained from great depths.

Jason Benedict is a materials science expert. He can speak to the media about crystals and light-responsive materials, and he can also answer general questions about chemistry and chemical reactions.