Researchers created ice crystals with a near-perfect cubic arrangement of water molecules, in order to better understand how high-altitude ice clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere. In this ...

Researchers at Princeton University have for the first time directly calculated the rate at which water crystallizes into ice in a realistic computer model of water molecules. The simulations, which ...

The conventional view among scientists about how ice forms is that it begins from seeds in which water molecules are packed together in a hexagonal structure and maintains this structure as it grows.

Cube-shaped ice is rare, at least at the microscopic level of the ice crystal. Now researchers have coaxed typically hexagonal 3-D ice crystals to form the most cubic ice ever created in the lab.

Ice-crystal halo: haloes such as the one seen here (photographed in Quebec City) are produced when light from the Sun or Moon interacts with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Scheiner’s halo ...

Snowflakes are usually hexagonal, but under certain conditions, they can look like diamonds. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency. In a new study published in the journal Nature, Chinese ...

For the first time, researchers have directly calculated the rate at which water crystallizes into ice in a realistic computer model of water molecules. Understanding ice formation adds to our ...

Observation of cubic ice formation on graphene at 102 K by in situ cryogenic TEM. Credit: Institute of Physics Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have ...