Glass ranks as one of the most important materials of our age. You have only to think about smartphones, or drinking glasses, or look out of the window to realise that glass in its various forms is ...

A new study challenges the notion that the atomic structure of glass is indistinguishable from that of a liquid­ ­— at least for a certain kind of glass called "amorphous ice" that forms when water is ...

The characterization of amorphous or partially amorphous pharmaceutical materials has been of particular interest in recent years. The existence of amorphous materials can generally be attributed to ...

'Amorphous ice' forms when water is rapidly cooled to form a disordered glass-like solid rather than the common form of ice, which is crystalline. Now researchers have found a surprising degree of ...