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How Scientists Turned Water Into Ice at Room Temperature

How Scientists Turned Water Into Ice at Room Temperature
science10/14/2025

“Ice XXI” is an entirely new phase of ice with a crystal structure that’s more complex than the ice found on Titan or Ganymede.

For something so common to our daily lives, there’s a surprisingly long list of questions scientists have yet to answer about ice—the solid form of water, seen in iced coffee, the frosty sprinkle on mountaintops, and, of course, extraterrestrial surf... [3146 chars]