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 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 team shows that ice can remain slippery near minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...