Canadians believe they can tell the temperature by the sound of the snow – and there’s science to back this up ...

At a small number of beaches around the world, dry sand actually makes noise underfoot, caused by friction between ...

To answer this, we will first have to look back to when the Great Lakes were formed and zero in on one mineral specifically. "Our dunes are quartz-rich," Michigan State University professor of ...

The slow squeak of a door hinge at 1 a.m. or the screech of a subway train taking a sharp turn may send a shiver down your spine, but why do these noises happen? Why does metal squeak? It turns out, ...

It all depends on temperature, as you have suggested. The melting point of snow — 32 degrees — is pressure-dependent and it drops significantly as pressure increases. Snow that remains frozen at 32 ...