{
  "id": 7819013,
  "title": "A 6-nanometer vapor barrier insulates ice during rapid heating",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/a-6-nanometer-vapor-barrier-insulates-ice-during-rapid-heating",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-16T16:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-nanometer-vapor-barrier-insulates-ice.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Put a drop of water into a very hot pan, and it can skitter across the surface on a cushion of vapor. This is known as the Leidenfrost effect. Now, scientists have observed a related phenomenon involving ice and an extremely hot surface—on a length scale of billionths of a meter (nanometers) and within billionths of a second (nanoseconds).",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}