Ice floating on a winter pond looks like an everyday miracle, yet it conceals one of the most consequential anomalies in all of physical chemistry. Almost every known substance contracts as it cools and grows denser in its solid phase, sinking without ceremony to the...
Battery electrolytes have long been imagined as passive solvents—inert liquids that simply ferry lithium ions between electrodes like a courier service. That mental model is now collapsing under the weight of new evidence. Advanced machine-learning simulations,...
