New form of ice found that may be common on distant, watery planets - Daily Mail

By slowly raising pressure, and blasting water ice with a laser beam, researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, found it make the transition from a known cubic phase to a newly-identified Ice-VIIt.

Water is one of the fundamental ingredients for life on Earth and covers around 71 per cent of our planet's surface, but it is also far more diverse than most of us would think. Now scientists have … [+7371 chars]

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