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 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 ...

Water may appear simple but behaves in ways that surprise even the world’s greatest scientists. A new international study has discovered that if it is put under extreme pressure—even at room ...

“Ice XXI” is an entirely new phase of ice with a crystal structure that’s more complex than the ice found on Titan or Ganymede. Reading time 2 minutes For something so common to our daily lives, there ...

Ice comes in many phases (about twenty, to be exact), and scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) just discovered a new one called “Ice XXI.” To study this new ...