...hot black ice, anyone? Apparently it's possible to turn ordinary water into "superionic" ice at, well, temperatures and pressures similar to the center of the Earth.
It's a solid and a liquid at the same time. Because, yeah, water is weird that way. Basically, the oxygen becomes solid and the hydrogen wanders around, which is what makes it black.
We don't know where it might form elsewhere, yet, and in the lab it can only be created for a microsecond.
But is it possible for there to be a true water world out there...water all the way through? Maybe!
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