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, ...

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

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

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 ...

The Saarland researchers reveal that the slipperiness of ice is driven by electrostatic forces, not melting. Water molecules in ice are arranged in a rigid crystal lattice. Each molecule has a ...