The phase diagram shows the state of water (H2O) under very high pressure (X-axis) and temperature conditions (Y-axis). These conditions apply in the interior of the ice planets Uranus and Neptune ...

The phase diagram Scientists expected to see different ... exist distinctly as solid ice and some as liquid water during the transition, the transition between normal nuclei and a hot soup of ...

"It has nothing to do with 'poly-water,'" Angell adds recalling a scientific fiasco of many decades ago. The new phenomenon is a liquid-liquid phase transition, and until now it had only been seen ...