LeavesJust how slippery are wet leaves on a road? Let's say you're driving 40mph and need to quickly come to a stop. It would ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers in Germany have challenged a 200-year-old assumption and revealed that pressure and friction are not responsible for making ice slippery, contrary to what has long been taught in physics ...

The entire city was an ice rink. A half-foot of new snow, followed by a freak warm spell with meltwater running on the sidewalks - then a refreeze - had swirled in to create the worst conditions ...

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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 ...

While winter often brings challenges like slippery ice, snow shoveling and hazardous travel, it also gifts us with stunning natural spectacles. One such wintry phenomenon is hoarfrost, where delicate ...

Rain on a slippery track turned Saturday's final practice for the Turkish Grand Prix into the equivalent of driving on an ice rink with cars sliding and spinning and lap times completely meaningless.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — So far this winter, West Michigan has been spared from any widespread icy weather setups. It looks like that's going to change starting late Wednesday. Light freezing rain is ...