In 1963, a Tanzanian secondary school student, Erasto Mpemba, entered scientific history when he sparked a scientific mystery and controversy that remains to this day. The phenomenon Mpemba found is ...

The question I have is - under which conditions would you say that the experiment shows the reasoning wrong, instead of experiment itself having been 'done wrong'? For example - if you do something as ...

Two cool(ing) cats: Two systems of quantum dots connected to a heat bath (represented here by cats), one with a current flowing and the other in an equilibrium state, experience a "crossing" as the ...

Heating up Physicists have shown that a colder trapped-ion qubit can warm-up faster than a hotter qubit. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia-Fux) The inverse Mpemba ...

The Mpemba effect—"hot water can freeze faster than cold”—has long intrigued physicists as one of nature’s most ...

It seems logical to expect cold water to freeze faster than hot, but some experiments have suggested the opposite. There’s now a new explanation for why hot water might freeze faster than cold under ...

The Mpemba effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon that causes some systems to cool faster when they are hot than when ...

The Mpemba effect happens when hot water freezes quicker than room temperature water … or does it? Our host, Alex Dainis goes on an exhaustive journey to replicate the Mpemba effect and hits a few ...

Temperatures are currently in the single digits across central Iowa with some slight warmth in the days ahead. Earlier this week, however, it got as low as -25 degrees during a period of below-zero ...

I recently learned that hot water can freeze faster than cold water. Perhaps you already knew this but it was news to me. It's a phenomenon known as the Mpemba Effect. This Mpemba Effect seems ...