{"id":227460,"date":"2025-12-19T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/machine-learning-and-microscopy-solve-170-year-old-mystery-of-premelting-ice"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:05:17","slug":"machine-learning-and-microscopy-solve-170-year-old-mystery-of-premelting-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/machine-learning-and-microscopy-solve-170-year-old-mystery-of-premelting-ice","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning and microscopy solve 170-year-old mystery of premelting ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-and-microscopy-solve-170-year-old-mystery-of-premelting-ice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through a novel combination of machine learning and atomic force microscopy, researchers in China have unveiled the molecular surface structure of \u201cpremelted\u201d ice, resolving a long-standing mystery surrounding the liquid-like layer which forms on icy surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed in a study in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/9fzf-y9n9\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review X<\/i><\/a>, the approach could also be applied more widely to reveal surface features that are too challenging for existing microscopy techniques to resolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a novel combination of machine learning and atomic force microscopy, researchers in China have unveiled the molecular surface structure of \u201cpremelted\u201d ice, resolving a long-standing mystery surrounding the liquid-like layer which forms on icy surfaces. Detailed in a study in Physical Review X, the approach could also be applied more widely to reveal surface [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227460","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}