Ice cream seems like a simple concept. Take some dairy, add some sugar and flavors and freeze. But to get a perfectly creamy, smoothly textured frozen treat, we need more than just a low temperature — ...

On cold winter mornings, 83-year-old Len Burgess wakes up before dawn, picks up his camera, and checks the storm windows on his Danvers, Massachusetts, home. When conditions are just right, he can ...

A photographer in the Swiss Alps has captured a remarkable image of an "ice halo," the moment ice crystals freeze in midair, creating a halo effect around the Sun. Michael Schneider, a photographer in ...