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The story goes that in 1963, Tanzanian high school student Erasto Mpemba was making ice cream with his class when he impatiently put his sugar and milk concoction into the ice cream churner when it ...

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Researchers at The University of Manchester have made an unexpected discovery about one of the world's most familiar ...

When people build dams—giant walls that hold back entire lakes and rivers—they have to build an overflow channel called a spillway, a mitigation against flooding. But the really cool physics of this ...