Dry ice is the secret ingredient for all that spooky fog you see at Halloween, whether it's billowing from a witch's cauldron of punch or creating a generally creepy atmosphere wending its way through ...

DO NOT TOUCH DRY ICE. That’s one of the three things most people know about the stuff. They also know that it’s colder than regular ice (somehow?), and that when you pour water on it, cool things ...

Halloween is upon us. As the fake furry spiders and cotton-woolish ersatz webs proliferate, what should really scare us is injudicious use of dry ice in decorative pseudo-cauldrons and elsewhere. A ...

Dry ice—or solid carbon dioxide, as it’s more specifically called—is a staple item in middle and high school science classes. But it’s also easily obtainable for anyone who wants to experiment with it ...

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. At its surface temperature of -109.3 degrees Fahrenheit (-78.5 degrees Celsius), a frozen block of dry ice transforms directly into a gas, skipping the liquid phase ...