When you splurge on a cocktail in a bar, the drink often comes with a slab of aesthetically pleasing, perfectly clear ice.

In this experiment, you'll discover how salt can help a string stick to ice. This simple demonstration shows how salt affects ice's freezing point and creates an unexpected result that seems to defy ...

Today we are delving into an experiment that is a study in Thermodynamics which is defined as the branch of physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy (such ...

NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the moon's subsurface and analyze where lunar resources may reside. The experiment's two key instruments will ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much ...

Which ice maker is best? Whether you’re making cocktails, whipping up an iced coffee or just enjoying a glass of cold water, it always helps to have plenty of ice in your freezer. You can take a few ...