Scientists have figured out how to make frozen discs of ice self-propel across a patterned metal surface, according to a new paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. It’s ...

A spinning disk of ice that made Westbrook, Maine, a tourist destination a year ago is returning. The city on Friday shared a photo via Twitter of a rather jagged sheet of ice gently rotating in the ...

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR) – Researchers at Virginia Tech have mimicked a mystery of nature that allows ice to move on its own. In Associate Professor Jonathan Boreyko’s Nature-Inspired Fluids and ...

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk ...

A giant ice disk churning in a river that runs through the small city of Westbrook, Maine, set off fevered speculation on Tuesday. Was it an icy landing zone for aliens? A sign of impending doom? A ...

WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — Maine's giant spinning ice disk that quickly gained international fame seems to have met its end. The formation in the Presumpscot River in Greater Portland stopped rotating ...

A perfect circle of ice was spotted spinning in the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River in Washington on Saturday. Meteorologists say the rotating disk is the result of water flowing around the river bend ...