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, ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) have usedquantum mechanical ...

The formation of ice from supercooled water is a process that underpins natural phenomena ranging from cloud formation and climate regulation to technological applications such as cryopreservation.

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical reactions that have puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers at the ...