A chaotic and slippery competition is coming to downtown as part of Open Streets Knoxville in May. The game involves stairs covered in water and soap that make contestants fall and slide down. So, ...

A box truck went off the road and tipped onto its side early Friday morning on Interstate 95 in Howland. Credit: Maine State Police The driver of a rental box truck went off Interstate 95 and into the ...

I realize your motto is you’ll print “damn near anything,” but this letter is to express my concern for a recent response in “Word on the Street.” The response was that this person would throw “people ...

A couple of former hedonists are reunited years later in Louis Emmitt-Stern’s quick-witted dissection of bereavement and the queer dating scene History is supposed to stay, well, history. But in Louis ...

[CLIP: Skates cut across the ice at an ice rink, and music plays in the background.] Kendra Pierre-Louis: So we’re out here today in lower Manhattan ice-skating. There are lots of kids skating around, ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — Ice seems simple. Frozen water. End of story. But ask why it’s slippery, and suddenly you’re deep into molecular physics — with implications that stretch from Olympic ice rinks to ...

MILWAUKEE — All it took was the mere mention of the words “Slippery Fish” for U.S. Speedskating national team coach Ryan Shimabukuro to purse his lips and shake his head. After torn ACLs and 10 ...

MILWAUKEE — All it took was the mere mention of the words “Slippery Fish” for U.S. Speedskating national team coach Ryan Shimabukuro to purse his lips and shake his head. There wasn’t even a full ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a ...

Wood floors can suddenly and inexplicably become super slippery. There are several ways of dealing with it, from temporary sprays to more permanent anti-slip coatings. Jeff Somers is a freelancer who ...