At University of California, Davis's Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Sciences, a team of researchers is re-imagining the ice cube. "Jelly ice" stays just as cold for just as long as ...

In extreme heat, ice packs are essential for delivery boxes. Recently, reusable cooling packs made of gel have also been introduced. However, they are useless if the plastic packaging tears and melts.

Anybody who’s used plastic ice cubes knows there are some pluses and some minuses. The main minuses being that they consist of plastic and often taste kind of gross. Now, researchers at the University ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — No matter whether it’s crushed or cubed, ice eventually melts into a puddle — but an alternative called jelly ice doesn’t. Researchers Jiahan Zou and Gang Sun developed a ...

American scientists from the The University of California, Davis, has created a new type of ice, that leaves no residual water behind, but cools just like regular ice. The scientists called their ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a new type of cooling cube that they claim could revolutionize how food is kept cold and shipped fresh without relying on ice or ...