The Mpemba effect sounds like it should be easy to debunk: hot water freezing faster than cold water? That's backwards. But ...

In the kind of cold that locks car doors and makes eyelashes frost, a simple pan of boiling water can turn into a white arc ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...