Making ice seems like a relatively easy process at home. Pour water into tray, place tray in freezer, wait until it solidifies, drop in beverage of choice and enjoy. When making ice requiring 15,000 ...

After closing in March for $4 million of renovations, the Oak Lawn Park District’s ice arena is scheduled to be back up and running by Jan. 14. Visitors to the 9320 S. Kenton Ave. ice arena, including ...

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, ...

Water ice permanently coats 10% of Earth’s land surface 1, and atmospheric ice clouds surround about half of the planet. Ice surfaces thus rank among the most ubiquitous interfaces in the natural ...

The Saarland researchers reveal that the slipperiness of ice is driven by electrostatic forces, not melting. Water molecules in ice are arranged in a rigid crystal lattice. Each molecule has a ...

Surface ice in Greenland has been melting at an increasing rate in recent decades, while the trend in Antarctica has moved in the opposite direction, according to researchers. Surface ice in Greenland ...

A team of glaciologists set out to quantify how much ice melt occurred on Antarctica's ice shelves from 1980 to 2021. The results might seem to be good news for the region, but the researchers say ...

Scientists probing for Earth's oldest continuous ice core near the South Pole Basin have uncovered disturbed basal layers and ...

We all know that ice chills and dilutes our drinks, but let’s take a scientific look at how it can affect taste and texture. Camper English is a San Francisco-based cocktails and spirits writer and ...

More than a decade ago, a NASA spacecraft intentionally blasted a crater into the moon's surface, throwing a cloud of ice and volatiles that had likely been trapped there for billions of years into ...

Antarctic ice shelves have experienced only minor changes in surface melt rates over the past four decades, unlike the rapid increase in surface melt experienced by Greenland’s glaciers during the ...