{"id":227176,"date":"2025-12-16T01:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/long-hypothesized-dynamic-transition-seen-in-deeply-supercooled-water-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:36:58","slug":"long-hypothesized-dynamic-transition-seen-in-deeply-supercooled-water-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/long-hypothesized-dynamic-transition-seen-in-deeply-supercooled-water-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Long-hypothesized dynamic transition seen in deeply supercooled water for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-hypothesized-dynamic-transition-seen-in-deeply-supercooled-water-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41567-025-03112-3\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle that has persisted for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Water has anomalous properties when cooled below freezing without crystallization. Previous studies have tracked how water\u2019s viscosity changes with temperature, predicting it would diverge to infinity around ~227 K (&minus;46\u00b0C), meaning liquid water\u2019s motion would essentially freeze.<\/p>\n<p>However, this prediction conflicted with other known properties of water. As a result, scientists proposed that the viscosity trend must undergo a change at a specific low temperature\u2014the so-called fragile-to-strong transition (FST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle that has persisted for nearly three decades. Water has anomalous properties when cooled below freezing without crystallization. Previous studies have tracked how water\u2019s viscosity changes with temperature, predicting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}