Summertime is the apex of ice-cream season. But heat can lead to a melted mess when you're trying to enjoy an ice-cream cone. We tested five major brands of vanilla ice cream: Baskin-Robbins, Ben ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that adding polyphenols to ice cream dramatically slows down melting, allowing the frozen dessert to stay solid for hours at room temperature.

Sloppy sundaes and drippy cones could become a thing of the past as the wonders of science have uncovered a way to make ice cream nearly melt-proof. The innovation comes from (where else?