Ice Created in Nanoseconds by Z Machine

I am no scientist but this article seems pretty interesting, and is the results of a project by Sandia Corporation.

Newswise

Sandia’s huge Z machine, which generates termperatures hotter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds.

However, don’t expect anything commercial just yet: the ice is hotter than the boiling point of water.

“The three phases of water as we know them — cold ice, room temperature liquid, and hot vapor — are actually only a small part of water’s repertory of states,” says Sandia researcher Daniel Dolan. “Compressing water customarily heats it. But under extreme compression, it is easier for dense water to enter its solid phase [ice] than maintain the more energetic liquid phase [water].”
Sandia is a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratory.

interesting... so if the compression turns it into ice... does the ice expand in the same way as 'cold ice' does? or does it take less space? compression is caused by squashing... so I would personally think the latter...

could be an interesting development for the transport of water, perhaps even into space..

All you need for that to happen is high pressure. It's easy (well, the science is easy, the amount of pressure you need might be hard to achieve).