Pouring hot water on your icy vehicle is a fool's errand. Cold water can actually thicken the ice, depending on the outside temperature, while hot water can cause the glass to crack due to the drastic ...

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New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

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For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The ...

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If you're looking for a better way to scramble your eggs, try some of the techniques that celebrity chefs use. You might just ...

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The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...