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 ...

Conventional wisdom is that ice is slippery because it has a thin layer of water on top, but new research suggests something ...

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, ...

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 ...

Residents in northern Scotland have been told to expect a further 5-10cm of snow - Jeff J Mitchell/ People should beware of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

FARGO — Occasional mild days and the higher sun angle this time of year can be good for melting snow. However, driving through partially melted snow and ice can still be tricky. Slush is a mixture of ...

The reason we can glide gracefully across an ice rink is because the surface of the ice is covered with a thin film of water. Scientists believe that this lubricating liquid layer makes the ice ...