As the sun rose over a bitterly cold Minnesota earlier this week, professional photographer Mike Shaw had some fun creating bubbles with a cookie cutter and watching as they turned into stunning ice ...

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical ...

Inside what looks like a simple block of frozen water, quantum mechanics is quietly rewriting the rules of chemistry. New ...

In a lab filled with bouncing green lasers and an anti-vibration table that hums a soft, squishy sound, the researchers used ...

At the heart of clouds are ice crystals. And at the heart of ice crystals, often, are aerosol particles - dust in the atmosphere onto which ice can form more easily than in the open air. It's a bit ...

Water frozen in the darkness of space doesn't appear to behave the way we thought. A new research effort using computer simulations and experiments to explore the most common form water takes in the ...

Try to bend an icicle and it’ll snap in two. With its tendency to crack into shards, ice’s reputation for being stiff and brittle seems well-established. But thin, pristine threads of ice are bendy ...

Watch frost form before your eyes as you learn about deposition – the process where water vapor transforms directly into ice crystals. You'll discover how salt affects freezing temperatures and see ...

You can never have too much ice cream, but you can have too much ice in your ice cream. Adding plant-based nanocrystals to the frozen treat could help solve that problem, researchers reported March 20 ...