Kenneth Golden, a mathematician at the University of Utah, was perusing images of Arctic sea ice when he noticed a pattern that seemed familiar. When seen from above, the melting sea ice looked like a ...

Keeping airplane wings ice-free is critical to flight safety, but it’s not the easiest of problems to solve. De-icing solutions with heavy chemicals that are sprayed onto aircraft ahead of take-off ...

A new ice-like material has shown potential for the safer, cleaner, and more efficient storage of natural gas and biomethane. Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a ...

Scraping ice off your car window might get a lot easier in the future thanks to a new spray coating developed by scientists in Austria. That's because of the way the molecules line up – or don't – ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated why ice stays slippery, even well below freezing. The most common ...

“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 ...

Professor Praveen Linga and his research team, Yunhan Ma (left) and Dr Ye Zhang (middle), at their lab, where the amino-acid-modified ice technology was developed. If you have ever cooked on a gas ...

In the dog days of summer, popping a tray of water into the freezer to make ice cubes may seem mundane. But at the smallest scales, we still don’t know a lot about how freezing unfolds. Now, the first ...