Could the hidden seas of icy moons occasionally boil beneath kilometers of ice? Recent modeling suggests that, given just the ...

Anxious for your pasta water to reach a boiling point? You’re probably tired of hearing "a watched pot never boils." That’s why instead we have the hard facts for you on the science behind the ...

Substances with large intermolecular forces have fewer molecules escaping into the gas phase at a given temperature because ...

THIS is a very large and important work, and one which cannot fail to be useful to the scientific chemist. It is divided into several parts, and contains, or rather consists of, tables of the elements ...

Unlike geology on Earth, which is driven by the movement of deep rock, the action on icy moons is powered by the dynamics of water and ice.

Cold water does not boil faster as water only boils when it reaches its boiling point. At sea level, water's boiling point is 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Celsius. Boiled water can be used ...

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Yes, it’s been toasty before. But not like this. This ...