Erasto Mpemba’s observations initiated decades of research into the Mpemba effect: whether a liquid (typically water) which is initially hot can freeze faster than the same liquid which begins cold.

The experiment I did is one such challenge. It is called the Mpemba effect. Although we rarely get such cold temperatures in the UK, there is a way to test this effect. It’s the counterintuitive ...

The Mpemba effect is an archetype for various anomalous relaxation phenomena. Here, the authors experimentally study a quantum version of the Mpemba effect in a single trapped ion system ...

Erasto Mpemba’s observations initiated decades of research into the Mpemba effect: whether a liquid (typically water) which is initially hot can freeze faster than the same liquid which begins cold.

The RSC today announced that Croatian Nikola Bregovic has won its worldwide competition to find the best explanation of the famed Mpemba Effect, by which hot water freezes faster than cold water. In a ...

More information: Shahaf Aharony Shapira et al, Inverse Mpemba Effect Demonstrated on a Single Trapped Ion Qubit, Physical Review Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.010403 . On arXiv ...

Dr Robert Parker, chief executive of the RSC, said today: " We are very excited by the arrival and involvement of Mr Mpemba, who has stayed in the shadows in the 50 years since his discovery of the ...