With an assist from a drone, one Chicago photojournalist captures the brutality and the beauty of winter in the Windy City.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

But giant icebergs are part of our future. As Antarctica becomes more unstable with warmer ocean and air temperatures, more vast pieces of the ice sheets will break away. Before its time comes to ...