With bitter cold weather in Metro Detroit, parents with stir-crazy kids can find fun things to do and all they need is the cold air and water!

During the Cold War, the U.S. built a military base under the ice in Greenland, hidden from the Soviets. It was eventually abandoned, but its most lasting legacy is a pivotal role in climate science.

A memorable and educational experiment that shows up in social media feeds every year is instant snow, in which boiling water is tossed out the door into the freezing air. Safety is key here.

We have another rain/snow/ice combo in the works late Saturday. Dan Smith has the latest on our next First Alert Weather Day.

Smethport’s second-grade students recently engaged in an exciting hands-on science experiment, exploring the properties of ...

With fresh snow blanketing the ground ... This safe and family friendly experiment was a hit as many kids jumped around in excitement, fascinated with the flowing mixture of ingredients which ...

Try making different colours of lava using food colouring and experiment to find the best fizzy recipe! We all know that salt can be used to melt ice, so why not have fun melting ice and come up ...

That was, in part, "because experiments with ice at the pressure melting temperature are a challenge," said Lucas Zoet, a paper co-author, a former postdoctoral research associate at Iowa State ...

On ice, lower was also better until you got to ... But that’s also what happens when you run experiments. So in the end, lower tire pressure wins out over going higher, but you can also ...

The snow must have been falling for hours before I first looked outside. Our car and truck were blanketed, and our street was soft, devoid of tracks. Not even a paw print. There’s a coziness in ...

The new research paper, “Linear-viscous flow of temperate ice,” deals with the former, said Iverson, a paper co-author and project supervisor. (See sidebar for a list of all co-authors.) The paper ...