We have come to accept some rather strange numbers as part of our culture. Thus, on the Fahrenheit scale, which we still use in this country, we have 32 degrees as the temperature at which water ...

The inner core of the Earth is simultaneously melting and freezing due to circulation of heat in the overlying rocky mantle, according to new research from the University of Leeds, UC San Diego and ...

Substances can exist in three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. Substances can change states. To change the state of a substance energy must be transferred to, or from, the substance. Phew! On ...

Shocking before and after photos reveal just how much the Greenland Ice Sheet melted during the 'hottest month ever recorded on Earth'. Taken on June 14, the first image snapped by a US satellite ...

The table below shows a comparison of the same substance in three different states. A single particle does not have the properties of the material it is part of. The properties of a substance are the ...

It's so cold in parts of the United States that a cup of boiling water tossed into the air can crystalize into ice and snow before it hits the ground. Videos of such strikingly weird phenomena in ...

Antarctic fishes that manufacture their own 'antifreeze' proteins to survive in the icy Southern Ocean also suffer an unfortunate side effect, researchers report: The protein-bound ice crystals that ...

While volcanoes ignite all sorts of chaos on Earth, ice volcanoes in space drive geological change in an entirely different way. The landscapes of icy moons across our Solar System are shaped not by ...

If salt melts ice on roads in winter, why do we use it in ice cream makers to freeze homemade ice cream? asks a reader.If you've ever made ice cream with a hand-cranked ice cream maker, you know that ...

In November, scientists from New Zealand used a hot water drill to go deep into Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf. The shelf, which can be up to 10,000 feet thick, is the largest of several that hold back ...