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 Mpemba effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon that causes some systems to cool faster when they are hot than when they are warm or colder. This effect was observed in various systems, ...

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 ...

The Mpemba effect, in which hot systems cool faster than cold ones under the same conditions, was first described by Aristotle more than 2,000 years ago. In 1963 it was rediscovered by Tanzanian ...

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 is originally referred to the non-monotonic initial temperature dependence of the freezing start time, but it has been observed in various systems -- including colloids -- and has ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have just described the existence of the paradoxical Mpemba effect within quantum systems. Initially investigating out of pure curiosity, the discovery has ...

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 ...

Science is driven to "know". We want to know how everything works, how things happen and wonder "what if" and "why". Even measuring the temperatures on a mixture experiment with hot and cold water or ...

Alex wonders what happens when hot water freezes quicker than room temperature water? The Mpemba Effect happens when hot water freezes quicker than room temperature water, or does it? Alex goes on an ...