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

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

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

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 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 ...