Using machine learning to better understand how water behaves - ScienceBlog.com

Scientists have been wondering about water for a long time. They think that if water is cooled down to really cold temperatures, like -100C, it might be able to turn into two types of liquid that are different densities. These two types of liquid don't mix, like oil and water, and they might help explain some of water's other strange behaviors, like how it becomes less dense when it gets colder. It's almost impossible to study this in a laboratory, though, because water turns into ice very quickly at these low temperatures. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used machine learning models to better understand how water changes under different conditions.