How Scientists Turned Water Into Ice at Room Temperature

For something so common to our daily lives, there’s a surprisingly long list of questions scientists have yet to answer about ice—the solid form of water, seen in iced coffee, the frosty sprinkle on mountaintops, and, of course, extraterrestrial surfaces. Fascinatingly, scientists keep finding entirely new types of ice, adding to the mystery surrounding how ice forms in different environments.

In a recent Nature Materials paper, a team of scientists led by the Korea Research Institute of…