Scientists discover that water turns into a new type of ice. Could exist on alien worlds
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. When scientists squeezed a drop of water between two diamonds to withstand pressures tens of thousands of times greater than Earth’s atmosphere, something unexpected happened. The liquid solidified at room temperature, not into any known form of ice, but into a new crystalline phase. This never-before-seen structure, called ice XXI, was discovered…