Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these 'phase transitions' aren't smooth, but their discontinuous nature is smoothed out at high pressure. An international ...

Despite being one of the most familiar substances on Earth, water holds many secrets that scientists are still working to ...

In physics, things exist in "phases", such as solid, liquid, gas. When something crosses from one phase to another, we talk about a "phase transition" - think about water boiling into steam, turning ...

Scientists explore the unique structure and behavior of water molecules confined in nanopores using nuclear magnetic ...