The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

This would-be catastrophe is fire-ice, the oxymoronic compound frozen deep under the ocean floor. As the oceans are warming, fire-ice is slowly melting and emitting the greenhouse gas methane into ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called “half-ice, half-fire.” This elemental moniker is a reference to the ...