Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How to walk safely on slippery surfaces. Daniel Karmann/dpa/dpa-tmn Walking on pavements these days is not only a slippery ...

Make sure to be careful of ice and slippery surfaces on this cold Presidents' Day, and strong winds are causing thousands of power outages in Connecticut. Eversource is reporting 8,000 outages while ...

Imagine you are standing on a slippery surface and the slightest imbalance makes you stumble. Researchers in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed such a surface, not for you, ...

The electrostatic rod can change the motion path of the free-falling raindrop, causing the raindrop to be either attracted or repelled away. These phenomena prove that electrostatic fields are a ...

Earlier this year, we told you about a slippery material system developed by researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which can start and stop liquid drops ...

The discovery holds potential for various applications, including self-cleaning surfaces and de-icing glass, in which droplet-repellent surfaces are useful. Reading time 2 minutes A duck’s back is not ...

Surfaces and roads were slippery on Wednesday morning after snow and ice and hundreds of schools had a delayed opening. Leonard Milulak, who has owned and operated Total Auto in Southington since 1977 ...

Self-draining slippery surface with light-thermal-electric synergy were fabricated to auto anti/de-icing even on horizontal devices. The synergy of photothermal conversion and thermoelectric coupling ...

After rainfall, the Nürburgring Nordschleife becomes significantly more challenging, with reduced grip affecting every corner ...