For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is ...

Researchers in Germany have challenged a 200-year-old assumption and revealed that pressure and friction are not responsible for making ice slippery, contrary to what has long been taught in physics ...

For centuries, we’ve been told that ice is slippery because pressure and friction melt a thin layer of water beneath our feet. School textbooks have repeated the story for generations: step onto ice, ...