Minnesota Wild forward Erik Haula shooting against the Winnipeg Jets during a Nov. 10 game at Xcel Energy Center. Paywall-free, every day. MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to ...

At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

A new model of the slipperiness of ice suggests that a layer of disordered ice forms underneath a sliding object. The model was developed by Bo Persson of Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and it ...

I learned to respect friction, as a phenomenon with many nuances, when I was a graduate student. One day, while teaching a problem session in elementary mechanics, I unwisely invented a new problem to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 18, 2018 -- Since the early 20th century, nearly all of Earth's glaciers have been retreating or melting. Glaciers cover 10 percent of the planet's land area and contain 75 ...

One of the greatest challenges of physicists, particularly condensed-matter physicists, has always been the difficulty of describing nature's complex systems with simple, mathematically solvable ...

Friction is an intrinsic physical phenomenon to curling. Without it, objects in motion would move endlessly, without slowing down. This would cause many safety-related problems: Cars or trains could ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by Inside Science. The original is here. (Inside Science) -- For a solid material, ice is strangely slippery. While Olympic skiers and children on a snowy hill ...