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

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

For more than a century, scientists have debated why ice stays slippery, even well below freezing. The most common ...

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

It’s an oft-cited science “fact” that ice is slippery due to pressure or friction, but this explanation doesn’t explain why ice’s slippery behavior remains at temperatures where such melting isn’t ...

Stop using salt to melt ice, as there is a better way to make driveways less slippery that will not harm your flowerbeds or ...

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 ...

A band of snow and ice is forecast to create slippery travel on the northern edge of a fast-moving storm tracking over the eastern United States late this week. The storm, which AccuWeather ...

Following a weekend storm in Massachusetts, many sidewalks, driveways and parking lots are covered by ice. Complicating matters is a lack of ice melt at stores throughout the area. Ice was an issue ...