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Water may seem boring, but it's way weirder than it looks. Scientists in Japan have now shown that when confined to tight spaces, water molecules can behave like both a solid and a liquid ...

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 and ...

This corralled supercooled liquid relies on the surprising property that some atoms in a liquid remain stationary regardless ...