Researchers in Germany have discovered that slipping on ice is caused by dipole interactions, not friction or temperature.

FARGO — Frost and snow are made of ice but form as intricate crystals, whereas ice that forms on a lake or a puddle is more of a hard blob of water. Impurities aside, water is made of water and ...

At the heart of ice crystals, often, are aerosol particles onto which ice can form more easily than in the open air. It's a bit mysterious how this happens, though. New research shows how crystals ...

Cube-shaped ice is rare, at least at the microscopic level of the ice crystal. Now researchers have coaxed typically hexagonal 3-D ice crystals to form the most cubic ice ever created in the lab.

Scientists have recreated the extreme conditions found on the frozen moons of the outer solar system and uncovered something ...

In order to have a ring, moonlight (reflected sunlight) must bend (refract) through (usually) hexagonal columnar-shaped ice crystals in cirrus clouds 25,000 to 30,000 feet above the Earth.

They can form only during very cold and calm weather conditions, with absolutely no wind and below-freezing temperatures. They take shape when light is refracted by tiny ice crystals, even smaller ...

Ice crystals form interesting light patterns in the sky, seen from Park City on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. E: A weak upper tangent arc F: The rare 44-degree ice halo ...

Researchers discovered lollipop-shaped crystals after scrutinizing more than 5 million images taken during a 2009 flight through a large cloud system in southwest England.

Ice Crystals Trapped in Diamonds Reveal New Form of Water, Ice-VII "That's what you call a discovery." by Sarah Sloat March 9, 2018 ...