Scientists Create New Form of Ice, Known As Ice XXI

fahrbot-bot shares a report from Popular Mechanics: [I]n a new study published in the journal Nature Materials, scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) have now found yet another phase, appropriately named Ice XXI. At the heart of the experiment, scientists used diamond anvil cells (DACs) — a common device used in materials science for squeezing samples under immense pressure — to subject water to 2 gigapascals (20,000 times higher…