Supercomputing Illuminates Water’s Enigmatic Freeze

For over two millennia, since Aristotle noted in his Meteorologica that “water, having been previously warmed, freezes more quickly,” the Mpemba effect has tantalised observers with its counterintuitive truth: hot water, under certain conditions, can freeze faster than cold. This paradox, rediscovered in the twentieth century by Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba and long debated in … Read more