For more than 200 years, scientists have argued about a deceptively simple question: why does a sheet of frozen water let us ...

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

Who says that playgrounds are only for kids? This adorable chocolate lab would strongly disagree! You won't be able to keep from chuckling out loud as you watch this dog having the time of his life as ...

For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The ...

Enigmatically, some landslides flow farther than normal frictional resistance allows. Cassini images of Saturn's icy moon Iapetus reveal a multitude of long-runout landslides that may have been ...

A new theory describes how slippery ice gets when a hard material like a ski slides across it. The theory agrees well with experimental data and could help design better sliding systems, as well as ...

Author Kia Corthron's intention to make a serious statement about the cloning issue is announced at the beginning of "Slide Glide the Slippery Slope," with a strong opening image of famous cloned ...

Last December I printed a letter from a Winston-Salem reader who is from California and has family ties in other states, including Pennsylvania. His wife's mother was from there. He wrote: "One of the ...