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There's nothing worse than needing ice and discovering that the freezer tray is still half full. If you've ever experienced this, you'll be pleased to know that there are simple tricks to speed up the ...

In 1963, a Tanzanian secondary school student, Erasto Mpemba, entered scientific history when he sparked a scientific mystery and controversy that remains to this day. The phenomenon Mpemba found is ...

The RSC today announced that Croatian Nikola Bregovic has won its worldwide competition to find the best explanation of the famed Mpemba Effect, by which hot water freezes faster than cold water. In a ...

There has been, and still is, worldwide interest in an RSC competition in which we offered £1000 to the person submitting the most imaginative, scientifically sound explanation of why hot water ...

The Mpemba effect — named for a Tanzanian physics student who first observed it while making ice cream in 1963 — refers to the thermodynamics phenomenon of how hot substances or materials, such as ...

Alex wonders what happens when hot water freezes quicker than room temperature water? The Mpemba Effect happens when hot water freezes quicker than room temperature water, or does it? Alex goes on an ...

The Mpemba effect, in which hot systems cool faster than cold ones under the same conditions, was first described by Aristotle more than 2,000 years ago. In 1963 it was rediscovered by Tanzanian ...

Two papers authored by researchers from SISSA’s physics area, in collaboration with international research groups, have been included in the prestigious “Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year ...

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In a bid to achieve the viral ‘boiling water into ice’ trend for an Instagram Reel, a woman ended up in the hospital with second-degree burns. The trend of tossing boiling water into the air, ...

Hot water does, in fact, freeze faster than cold water. Known as the Mpemba effect, the seemingly-counterintuitive phenomenon is named after Erasto Mpemba, a Tanzanian schoolboy who first observed it ...