Residents in Portage la Prairie were treated to a striking winter sky the last few evenings as pillars of light shot up from ...

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, ...

Unusual fluffy ice has been spotted in woodland on the shores of Loch Ness. The phenomenon known as hair ice, frost flowers ...

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) it is a reality. By trapping and charging ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

A powerful winter storm driven by a rapidly intensifying cyclone is sweeping east from the Plains, bringing heavy snow, ice ...

Pepto-Bismol contains bismuth subsalicylate, and it's possible to extract the bismuth from it and use it to grow metal crystals.

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even ...

At the 27th Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, an ice sculpture of a steam train that emits real ...

Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...

Nick Baker takes a look at the weird phenomenon that produces hair ice, a rare winter wonder formed by a bit of alchemy magic ...