After the weekend’s winter storm brought icy conditions to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, you may be wondering what to do if you ...

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn't entirely clear why that layer forms.

Using steaming hot water to de-ice a driveway isn't always the wisest idea. Here's how to use hot water to de-ice your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New simulations show ice stays slippery in deep cold because its crystal structure breaks down under motion, not because it melts.

It’s a wintertime question that you may have had as you struggled down a frozen sidewalk, or strapped on some ice skates: Just why is ice slippery, anyway? It turns out the answer is somewhat ...

Salt is the most common way treat driveway ice, but it's not the only option. If you run out of salt, use one of these six things to manage slippery surfaces.

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.