Mars appears as a red-orange globe with darker blotches and white icecaps visible on both of its poles. Mars appears as a red-orange globe with darker blotches and white icecaps visible on both of its ...

For more than 200 years, scientists have argued about a deceptively simple question: why does a sheet of frozen water let us ...

A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how liquids maintain their contact with solid surfaces -also known as wettability - from an intermolecular force ...

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even ...

Ice surfaces have a thin layer of water below its melting temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. Such premelting phenomenon is important for skating and snowflake growth. Similarly, liquid often ...

Doubt has been cast on the possibility of a lake of liquid water buried beneath Mars' southern ice cap by new computer simulations, which suggest that closely compacted layers of ice could produce the ...

The applications of spectroscopic ellipsometry for the precise characterization of liquid-liquid and liquid-air interfaces include surface science, biomedical applications, thin film coatings, and ...