Residents in northern Scotland have been told to expect a further 5-10cm of snow - Jeff J Mitchell/ People should beware of ...

Conventional wisdom is that ice is slippery because it has a thin layer of water on top, but new research suggests something ...

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.

At the first sight of ice and snow, many people rush to the stores to buy rock salt and ice melt to spare themselves the hassle of finding and avoiding slippery ice patches. If you didn't look at the ...