FARGO — Frost and snow are made of ice but form as intricate crystals, whereas ice that forms on a lake or a puddle is more of a hard blob of water. Impurities aside, water is made of water and ice ...

Physicists have finally filmed a crystal as it melts and discovered that, under the right conditions, it refuses to behave like ordinary ice. Instead of dissolving smoothly into a liquid, this solid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some parts of the U.S. see well over 100 inches (2.5 meters) of snow per year. Edoardo Frola/Moment Open via Getty Images The ...

In the dog days of summer, popping a tray of water into the freezer to make ice cubes may seem mundane. But at the smallest scales, we still don’t know a lot about how freezing unfolds. Now, the first ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental ...

Candle ice is late-season ice that weakens from the inside as warming temperatures cause it to break into fragile, vertical ...