For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The team shows that ice can remain slippery near minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit ...

For more than 200 years, scientists have argued about a deceptively simple question: why does a sheet of frozen water let us ...

When you step onto an icy sidewalk or push off on skis, the surface can seem to vanish beneath you. For more than a century, ...

With this weekend's snow storm on the way, you also need to keep an eye out for ice - especially while walking on driveways and sidewalks. Winter boots can protect you from the snow, but no amount of ...

Boundary structure between Ih- and Ic-stacking domains on the (0001) surface of hexagonal ice. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07427-8 A team of physicists affiliated with several ...

The journey to unravel the mysteries of ice’s slipperiness began with Michael Faraday’s groundbreaking proposal in the 1850s. Faraday suggested that a thin liquid water layer on the surface of ice was ...

Drone footage captured adults and children venturing out onto a slippery ice shelf on Lake Michigan’s southern shore on ...

We really don’t think too much about ice. Adults hate it and kids love it. However, there is a lot of mystery to ice that involves a lot of science. The reason this is such a mystery is that most ...

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SPOKANE, Wash. — It’s safe to say the conditions of the streets and sidewalks in the Inland Northwest are not ideal this time of year. Since the snowstorm hit, ice has been a common obstacle for ...

Technically, there are 15 sports on the docket of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. But if you think about it—like, really think about it—they all revolve around one single, shared objective. Unlike the ...