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The ground looks solid. Your shoe touches it. Suddenly, it behaves like there’s a lubricant underneath you. What’s really happening at the surface of ice?

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August 30, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Scientists spent generations trying to explain one ridiculously ordinary question: why is ice slippery? The deeper they looked, the stranger the answer became.

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August 30, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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Warmer ice should mean more melting and therefore more slipping… right? Not necessarily. This familiar winter “fact” hides some seriously strange physics.

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August 30, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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Before watching, answer this: what makes ice slippery—pressure, frictional heat, or something already happening at the surface?

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August 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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What if ice doesn’t need to simply “melt” to become incredibly slippery? The microscopic answer turns an everyday winter experience into a physics mystery.

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August 29, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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You step on ice. Your foot slides. Simple, right? At the molecular level, that ordinary patch of ice is doing something far stranger than you were taught.

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August 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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Ice can stay slippery even when the classic “pressure melts it” explanation starts falling apart. So what’s actually happening beneath your feet?

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August 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Why is ice slippery? The answer sounds obvious—until you discover the explanation most of us learned can’t explain everything that scientists observe.

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August 28, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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You were probably taught that pressure melts ice and makes it slippery. There’s just one problem: that’s not the whole story.

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August 28, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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A 1550 nm infrared laser drilled icy samples, reaching up to 3.1 m/h with ~10 W for dusty ice and a 6 mm borehole. Clear ice used ~20 W for ~1 m/h, granular ice 1.7 m/h at 12.7 W. https://getnews.me/laser-drill-achieves-efficient-ice-penetration-for-space-exploration/ #laserdrilling #icescience
Laser Drill Achieves Efficient Ice Penetration for Space Exploration
September 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Infrared spectroscopy can distinguish exotic high‑pressure ice phases such as ice V and ice XIII, and a few hours of JWST observations could identify them on Ganymede, researchers say. https://getnews.me/infrared-spectroscopy-could-reveal-exotic-ice-phases-on-icy-moons/ #icescience #jupitermoons
Infrared Spectroscopy Could Reveal Exotic Ice Phases on Icy Moons
September 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Saarland University researchers report in Physical Review Letters that electric dipole interactions, not pressure, create a liquid‑like film on ice, keeping it slippery below 0 °C. Read more: https://getnews.me/new-study-reveals-molecular-dipoles-make-ice-slippery-not-pressure/ #icescience #physics
New Study Reveals Molecular Dipoles Make Ice Slippery, Not Pressure
September 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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New research shows that Mars’ mid‑latitude glaciers contain over 80% pure water ice, a level far higher than previously thought. The findings were published in Icarus on 7 July 2025. https://getnews.me/mars-glaciers-found-to-be-over-80-pure-ice-new-study-shows/ #mars #glaciers #icescience
Mars Glaciers Found to Be Over 80% Pure Ice, New Study Shows
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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This Ice Rotates Like Liquid but Stays Solid – Here’s How #Science #Physics #CondensedMatterPhysics #IceScience #PhaseTransition #MaterialProperties
This Ice Rotates Like Liquid but Stays Solid – Here’s How
Water isn’t just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly observed plastic ice VII. This hybrid phase, predicted years ago but only...
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February 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM