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, ...

For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The ...

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 ...

For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is ...

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a thin watery layer. Scientists generally agree that this ...

PHILADELPHIA — Philly winters have been streaky in recent years, but homeowners and hockey enthusiasts are making the most of the recent deep freeze to build backyard ice skating rinks. While many ...

Every family has its own traditions, but few are as fantastic as the Veal's Ice Tree. Every family has its own traditions, but few are as fantastic as the Veal's Ice Tree. Each winter, when the ...

These Minnesotans have spent anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars for a place to skate close to home.