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I'm building a machine that breaks the rules of reality

I'm building a machine that breaks the rules of reality

4 April 2018

We thought only fools messed with the cast-iron laws of thermodynamics – but quantum trickery is rewriting the rulebook, says physicist Vlatko Vedral

Ice

Gel-like ice is the lightest form of water ever discovered

8 September 2017

A type of simulated water ice has a molecular structure so sparse it’s like frozen candy floss, making it the lightest type of ice we’ve ever seen

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