Survey the area for any safety hazards, like trapped fences, hanging branches, or downer power lines. Pick up small branches ...

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, scientists have debated why ice stays slippery, even well below freezing.

It’s a wintertime question that you may have had as you struggled down a frozen sidewalk, or strapped on some ice skates: Just why is ice slippery, anyway? It turns out the answer is somewhat ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — Ice seems simple. Frozen water. End of story. But ask why it’s slippery, and suddenly you’re deep into molecular physics — with implications that stretch from Olympic ice rinks to ...

Common household waste, like sawdust and used coffee grounds, can make effective salt substitutes. Sand and cat litter can increase traction on slippery surfaces when salt is not available. Improve ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a ...

Winter Storm Fern, a rare convergence of Arctic cold and Southwest moisture, seems set to bring Arctic weather to many parts of the U.S. this weekend. With it, storm warnings included familiar ...

[CLIP: Skates cut across the ice at an ice rink, and music plays in the background.] Kendra Pierre-Louis: So we’re out here today in lower Manhattan ice-skating. There are lots of kids skating around, ...