In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have demonstrated the quantum version of the strong Mpemba effect (sME) in a ...

The mystery of why hot water seems to freeze before cold water is one that has long puzzled physicists, who have proposed various mechanisms that could allow for the so-called “Mpemba effect”, even ...

File this under "counterintuitive:" Under certain conditions, scientists and curious folks alike have observed hot water freezing faster than cold water. This effect is more than just surprising. It ...

Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? On its face this idea seems like it should be ridiculously simple to test, and even easier to intuit, but this question has in fact had physicists arguing ...

Heating up Physicists have shown that a colder trapped-ion qubit can warm-up faster than a hotter qubit. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia-Fux) The inverse Mpemba ...

The question I have is - under which conditions would you say that the experiment shows the reasoning wrong, instead of experiment itself having been 'done wrong'? For example - if you do something as ...

In physics, chilling out isn’t as simple as it seems. A hot object can cool more quickly than a warm one, a new study finds. When chilled, a warmer system cooled off in less time than it took a cooler ...

Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? On its face this idea seems like it should be ridiculously simple to test, and even easier to intuit, but this question has in fact had physicists arguing ...

Every year needs to begin with a new internet sensation. In 2018, pride of place appears to be going to the Mpemba Effect. It involves throwing hot, preferably boiling, water into the air in freezing ...

Scientists have known that hot water freezes faster than cold water, since the time of Aristotle in Ancient Greece. However, until now they have struggled to explain why. A team of scientists in ...